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~: 20®~-Z27_c~ ~ <br />P¢ d4 <br />Juniper Coal Co. <br />29575 Routt County Road 27 <br />Oak Creek, CO 80467 <br />970.8793800 <br />May 10, 2006 <br />Mr. James Burnell <br />Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology <br />1313 Shem~an St., Room 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />Phone: (303) 866-4928 <br />Re: Juniper Coal Company -Notice of Intent to Explore <br />Deaz Mr. Burnell: <br />oe r'~ <br />~E~t <br />Mpy 112006 <br />~~~~yp~1 M\~ecele eOJ VeO\oyY <br />P„"- ~ <br />Juniper Coal Company (JCC) is submitting this Notice of Intent (NOn to provide for exploration <br />access, drill pad development, drilling and sampling of up to 33 coreholes, phased geotechnical <br />investigations, and subsequent reclamation of the associated exploration disturbance in an area <br />designated as the Big Elk property, as shown on the accompanying maps. The proposed <br />exploration activities, which would occur over athree-year period (2006-2008), will provide JCC <br />with important supplemental geologic, coal quality, and geotechnical information needed to <br />assess coal recovery potential and economic feasibility for possible future mining of coal reserves <br />associated with the Big Elk property, and ground conditions for potential facility siting. This <br />NOI submittal duplicates information concurrently provided to the USDI-Bureau of Land <br />Management under a federal Exploration License Application. <br />This NOI submittal includes the following: <br />• Transmittal letter <br />• Parts I-III of the CDMG NOI form and corresponding explanatory text, tables, figures, <br />and maps <br />• Legal description of proposed exploration azea <br />• Cultural Resource Report <br />• Surface owner listing and access agreements <br />The proposed exploration program involves: <br />• Construction of 33 drill pads (each approximately 100 x 100 ft) <br />• Completion, sampling, and geophysical logging of 33 coreholes <br />• Phased geotechnical investigations involving construction of drill pads and drilling of up <br />to 39 shallow drillholes, and up to 3,000 feet of shallow trenching <br />• Abandonment (plugging and sealing) of coreholes, drillholes, and trenches, and <br />reclamation of the associated exploration disturbance <br />