REV90033

• Permit No: C1980005
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 6/22/2006
• Doc Name: Request to Leave Permanent Structures & Revised Page Letter
• From: Seneca Coal Company
• To: Colorado State Land Board Northwest District Office
• Type & Sequence: TR37
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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June 20, 2006
Mr. Lane Osborn
Colorado State Land Boazd
Northwest District Office
RED~NED
JUN 2 2 2006
P.O. Box 1094 ,
Craig, CO 81626 ~~~~ u~ Mmece~s and G•d~
[phone]
RE: Request to Leave Permanent Structures on State of Colorado Lands
Mr. Osborn,
Seneca Coal Company (SCC) holds a surface lease on portions of Colorado State Land Board controlled lands in Routt
County, Colorado. SCC operates and conducts reclamation at the Seneca II Mine, which includes State of Colorado
controlled lands, under a Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology (CDMG) Mine and Reclamation Permit (Pertnlt
No. C-80-005). As part of the future final reclamation p]an, Seneca Coal Company proposes to leave a variety of
structures/facilities within the State of Colorado lands as permanent features.
The Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board Regulations for Coal Mituug, Rule 2.05.5(1)(6) states...'Ihe postmining
land use description shall be accompanied by a copy of the comments concerning the proposed use by the legal or equitable owner of record of
the surface of the proposed permit area and the State and local government agencies which would have to initiate, implement, approve, or
authorize the proposed rue of the land following reclamation': The features proposed as permanent include:
• Livestock Watering Tanks (11 tankr) -retention of these stock ponds was approved on October 28, 2002 in a letter
from Mazk Davis, Minerals Director, Colorado State Land Board, to Sandy Brown, Colorado Division of Minerals
and Geology. (l etler attached)
• Roads (48,200 feet/9.1 miksf -see attached map
• Sedimentation Ponds/Itnpoundments (3 paretic) -see attached map
The State of Colorado lands, within the Seneca II Mine pemut boundary, include all or portions of the following:
Township 6 North. Range 87 West
Section 36 (portion of)
Townshio 5 North. Ranee 87 West
Section 1 (portion of)
Section 2 (all)
Section 3 (portion oE)
Section 11 (portion of)
Section 12 (all)
Section 13 (portion of)
Seneca Coal Company • P.O. Box 670 . Hayden, Colorado 81639
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