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Mountain Coal Company <br />Wat Elk Mln~ <br />Pant Oflles aox 591 <br />Somerset, CdoraCO 87434 <br />TelapMne 9709735075 <br />Fak 970 979559r <br />September I8, 1995 <br />Mr. & Mrs. Larry Mauu <br />1938 Highway 133 <br />Paonia, CO 81428 <br />9-LO.95-' V i <br />Re: Clarification of the Development Waste Pile Construction <br />Dear Larry and Elaine: <br />III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII <br />999 <br />~~ <br />To address one of the concerns you've voiced, Mountain Coal Company (MCC) would be glad to <br />assist you in clarifying to your finance company that the development waste pile constructed on <br />your property leased to MCC in Lone Pine Gulch is not a typical waste or garbage "dump", but is <br />merely a soil and rock fill. In mining terminology, "development" is tunneling to and in a coal <br />seam to prepare it for mining and transporting the coal. When developing through the coal seam, <br />the coal removed is a mazketable product referred to as development coal or development <br />tonnage. When developing through rock or sub-grade coal, typically for access to or ventilation <br />for mining, the rock removed is referred to as development waste. It is called waste rock because <br />it is not the marketable coal product. <br />The Lone Pine Gulch development waste pile was designed and constructed to contain (and only <br />contains) soil and rock, including a small percentage of sub-grade coal, that was removed from <br />the ventilation entries (tunnels for air) down to the coal seam being mined by MCC. The pile does <br />not contain trash or gazbage that is required to be disposed in a licensed "dump" or landfill. The <br />pile is capped with subsoil and topsoil and will be seeded, fertilized and mulched. <br />MCC believes that your finance company will not be concerned with the development waste pile <br />once the difference between this pile and a typical "dump" is clarified. Please let me know if you <br />would like for me to contact your finance company directly or provide further verification or <br />clarification to you to resolve this concern. <br />Sincerely, <br />~~ <br />Kathleen I~lt <br />Environmental Supervisor <br />cc: Scot Anderson <br />Norm Every <br />Christine Johnston, CDMG <br />Phil Schmidt <br />