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!~ <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING <br />Reclamation and F.,nforcement <br />P.O. Boa 46667 <br />Denver, Colorado 30201-6667 <br />IN 0.E1`LY REFE0. TO~. <br />CO-0026 <br />CO-0069 <br />April 13, 2006 RECEIVED <br />Mr. Al Pfister - Assistant Field Supervisor ApR 14 2006 <br />U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service <br />Ecological Services Division of Minerals b Geology <br />Western Colorado Office <br />764 Horizon Drive, Building B <br />Grand Junction, Colorado 81506-3946 <br />RE: Formal section 7 Consultation, CAM Mining LLC's "McClane Canyon"mine, Permit <br />C-80-004, Permit Renewal RN-6, and the "Munger Canyon" mine, Permit C-81-020 <br />Dear Mr. Pfister: <br />The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) Western Region is <br />reinitiating formal section 7 consultation for the above subject mines at the request of the <br />Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology (CO-DMG). <br />During the processing of Permit Renewal RN-6 for the McClane Canyon mine, the U.S. Fish & <br />Wildlife Service (USF&WS) expressed a concern that CO-DMG may not be fully coordinating <br />the permit renewal with OSM, the Federal action agency. OSM requested, and CO-DMG <br />directed, CAM Mining LLC to reevaluate the McClane Canyon mine's potential effects to <br />threatened and endangered species. As a part of that reevaluation, CAM Mining LLC also <br />elected to include their Munger Canyon mine in the evaluation. <br />The McClane Canyon underground coal mine is located in Garfield County, Colorado, <br />approximately nineteen (19) miles north of the town of Loma, Colorado, on Bureau of Land <br />Management, and private lands as follows; <br />Township 7 South, Range 102 West 6`~ P.M. <br />Section 15, All; <br />Section 16, E''/z; <br />Section 21, E''/z, E'/zW'/z, SW'/aNW'/a, NW'/aSW'/a; <br />Section 22, All; <br />Section 27, N'/z; <br />Section 28, NW'/aNE'/a, NE'/aNW'/a . <br />TAKrE F'i~1~~x: ~? <br />t~AMERIGA~~ <br />