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STATE OF COLORADO
<br />DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
<br />Department of Natural Resources
<br />1313 Sherman St., Room 215
<br />Denver, Colorado 80203
<br />Phone: (303) 866-3567
<br />FAX: (303) 832-8106
<br />April 16, 2004
<br />Jim Green
<br />Colorado Historical Society
<br />The Colorado History Museum
<br />1300 Broadway
<br />Denver, CO 80203
<br />Re: West Elk Mine (Permit No. C-1980-007)
<br />Permit Revision Application No. 10 (PR-10)
<br />Application to Mine E-Seam South of Present Permit Area
<br />Deaz Mr. Green:
<br />COLORADO
<br />DIVISION O F
<br />MINERALS
<br />GEOLOGY
<br />REC LAM ATION•M WINO
<br />SAFETY•SCIENCE
<br />all DWens
<br />Governor
<br />Russell George
<br />Executive Director
<br />Ronald W. Cattany
<br />Division Director
<br />Natura{ Resource Trustee
<br />The Division of Minerals and Geology hereby issues notice, in accordance with Title 34, Article 33, Section 116,
<br />Pazagaph 4, of the Colorado Revised Statutes, that on April 8, 2004, an application to revise coal mining operations
<br />at the West Ells Mine was considered complete for the purposes of filing. The revision was submitted by Mountain
<br />Coal Company, LLC. All review and comment periods as provided in the Act and the Regulations initiate from this
<br />date of filing.
<br />Mountain Coal Company has applied for a permit revision to mine the E-seam in the remainder of Federal Coal Lease
<br />C-1362 and private fee lease south of the present permit area.
<br />The underground coal mining operation is on land located approximately 9 miles east of Paonia, Colorado. The
<br />permit area is further described as follows:
<br />Portions of Section 29, 30, 31, and 32, Township 12 South, Range 90 West;
<br />Portions of Sections 25, 26, 27, 34, 35 and 36, Township 12 South, Range 91 West;
<br />Portions of Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, all of 6 and 7, Portions North of the North Fork of the Gunnison River in Sections 8,
<br />9, 10, portions of Sections L 1, 12, 17, and 18, Township 13 South, Range 90 West;
<br />Portions of Sections 1-3, 11-13, Township 13 South, Range 91 West;
<br />Portions of Sections 6 & 7, Township 13 South, Range 89 West of the 6th P.M.
<br />The above-mentioned tracts of land are shown on USGS 7.5 minute Quadrangle maps of Somerset & Minnesota Pass.
<br />Because the above-referenced permit revision application would incorporate additional lands into the permit area or
<br />might otherwise alter previously approved permit conditions or mitigation measures, we are requesting your agency's
<br />evaluation of the potential for impacts to cultural and historic resources.
<br />In accordance with the May 1991 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between our agencies, we must have your
<br />concurrence in order to approve this proposal. We are required to make a finding that "the proposed operations will
<br />not adversely affect any publicly owned park or place listed on or those places eligible for listing, as determined by
<br />the SHI'O, on the National Register of Historic Places, anless approved jointly by the Boazd and the Federal, State, or
<br />Office of Of(ice of Colorado
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