REV17668

• Permit No: C1980005
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 5/9/2007
• Doc Name: Request for Review & Comments
• From: DRMS Grand Junction Field Office
• To: NW Regional Wildlife Manger
• Type & Sequence: TR44
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Department of Na[ural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
DATE: May 9, 2007
COLORADO
DIVISION OE
RECLAMATION
MINING
- Sc-
SAFETY
Bill Owens
Governor
TO: Ron Velarde, DOW Russell Ceorge
NW Regional Wildlife Manager Executive DlreCtOr
Ronald W. Cottony
///~~~ Division Director
FROM: Dan Mathews [,// Natural Resource Trustee
DRMS Grand Junction Field Office ,~' I
RE: Seneca Mines 2006 Annual Wildlife Report and Revision Requests
Yoast Permit (C-1994-082), Seneca II Permit (C-1980-005), and Seneca
II-W Permit (C-1982-057)
Mr. Velarde,
The enclosed package of materials include the 2006 Annual Wildlife Reports (taken from
the Annual Reclamation Reports) for the three referenced coal mines operated by Seneca
Coal Company, in Routt County, along with technical revision applications recently
submitted by the company for each of the permits. The revision applications contain
requests to amend the approved wildlife monitoring plans to allow for termination of
winter aerial survey and mortality tracking for big game, now that mining has ceased and
each of the mines is in final reclamation.
We aze requesting DOW's review and comment on the annual reports, and further, we are
requesting DOW's review and specific recommendation concerning the technical
revision requests to discontinue certain aspects of the currently approved wildlife
monitoring plans.
The enclosed letters contain the standard boilerplate language regarding request for
review within 15 days, but I recognize that timeframe may not be realistic. I would ask
that you provide responses within 30 days ofreceipt ifpracticable. Further, I would ask
that review/comment letters for the Yoast and Seneca II permits be directed to Mike
Boulay, and that the Seneca II-W letter be directed to me. Mike and I are both in the
Grand Junction Office, but we request that letters be sent to the Denver office for imaging
and distribution purposes.
If you or DOW staff who perform the review have any questions, please call me in Grand
Junction at [phone]. Thanks a lot.
C: Denver File (C-94-082; TR-33), (C-80-005; TR-44), (C-82-057; TR-57)
Office of Office of
Mined Land Reclamation Active and Inactive Mines