REV17574

• Permit No: C1996083
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 4/15/2005
• Doc Name: Completeness Letters
• From: DMG
• To: State & Federal Agencies
• Type & Sequence: TR40
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
April 15, 2005
Cazl Johnston
Office of Surface Mining
Western Regional Coordinating Center
1999 Broadway, Swte 3320
P.O. Box 46667
Denver, CO 80201-6667
Re: Bowie No. 2 Mine (Permit No. C-1996-083)
Technical Revision Application No. 40 (TR-40)
Enlarge Pond B
Deaz Mr. Johnston:
COLORADO
DIVISION OF
MINE6RALS
GEOLOGY
0.ECLANATION•MINING
rAf ETY•ECIENCE
Bill Owens
Governor
Russell George
Ezecurive Director
Ronald W. fattany
Division DlfeCtof
Natural Resource Trustee
The Division of Minerals and Geology hereby issues notice, in accordance with Title 34, Article 33,
Section 116, Pazagraph 4, of the Colorado Revised Statutes, that on April 15, 2005, an applicafion to
revise coal mining operations at the Bowie No. 2 Mine was considered complete for the purposes of
filing. The revision was submitted by Bowie Resources, LLC, All review and comment periods as
provided in the Act and the Regulations initiate from this date of filing.
In Technical Revision No. 40, Bowie Resources LLC (BRL) is proposing to enlarge the holding capacity
of Pond B, with the intention of increasing the sediment settling capacity of the pond. The pond will be
enlazged by excavating to the east. The newly excavated area will be at an elevation that is above the level
of the existing primary gated dischazge pipe, so that the surface area and volume of the existing dead pool
of water in the pond will not change. However, the total capacity of the pond will be increased from 4.72
acre-feet to 7.6 acre-feet.
Because there will not be any additional volume of water held back in Pond B below the level of the
primary dischazge pipe, the Division assl3mes that a Section 7 consultation is not needed for TR-40.
Please inform the Division if this is not correct.
About 0.7 acres of new disturbance on land owned by BRL will result from this project. The excavation
will be within 100 feet of the right-of--way of state highway 133B so an opportunity is being offered for
the public to request a public hearing concerning the project. Five hundred feet of new guazdrail will be
installed between the pond and the highway.
The Underground coal mining operation is on land located approximately 5 miles Northeast of Paonia,
Colorado. The permit area is further described as follows:
Portions of Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, and 22, Township 13 South, Range 91 West of the
6th P.M.
Office of Office of Colorado
Mined Land Reclamation Active and Inactive Mines Geological Survey