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1\ H!1'11 N!!!H 111 <br />iii iiiiiiiiniii iii <br />999 <br />Doc Date:12/11/2001 <br />~~P ~• 3 <br />United States Department of <br />GEOLOGICAL Sl"RCEI' <br />BOS 2016 n1.S. 602 <br />DENVER FEDERAL CENTER <br />DEN\'E R. COLORADO 802_ <br />Mr. Al Amundson <br />Chief Engineer <br />Western Slope Carbon, Inc. <br />315 East 2nd South <br />P.0. Box 1526 <br />Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 <br />s~~ /Ci~ ~.,3 <br />the Interior <br />C-27103 <br />.Tune 18, 1980 <br />Subject: Exploration plan, Intake Portal, coal lease C-27103 <br />Dear Mr. Amundson: <br />Your exploration plan dated March 18, 1980, consisted of two drill holes <br />to test a site for an intake portal for the Hawks Nest East Mine. <br />In the morning of May 21, 1980, Bureau of Land Management personnel from <br />the Montrose District Office and your representatives examined the site. <br />Also, later in the day on May 21, engineers from this office examined the <br />• site with your representatives. <br />The drill sites (and the proposed intake shaft-portal site) are located <br />in an active landslide area which had very recently moved and had damaged <br />a section of the State highway as well as moving the land surface from the <br />highway nearly to the North Fork of the Gunnison River. The site is not <br />suitable for underground entries and the short vertical shaft from the <br />surface to the coal bed and the underground entries. <br />The ventilation intake shaft and entries should not normally be placed <br />in known unstable ground. <br />Accordingly, the proposed exploration plan for that site is NOT APPROVED. <br />You should consider selection of a more stable site, possibly a short <br />distance to the west, for the ventilation shaft and a new course for <br />connecting the shaft site with the 1st East entry system of the Hawks <br />Nest East Mine. <br />~C~~~~V~ <br />JUN 2 ;; iyc0 <br />• <br />WEStERN SLOPE CARBON, INC. <br />