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??,ENr o? r?? <br />??` <br />o? ? United State-s De artment ?? the Inte?.or <br />ti4 '? 7f <br />• OFFICE OF SURFACE MlN7NG <br />.? <br />???H 3 ??? Reclamation and Enforcement <br />P. 0. Box 46667 <br />[N REPLY REFER T0: Denver, Colorado 802D1-6667 <br />October 27, 2009 <br />Loretta Pineda, Acting Director <br />Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />RE: Phase 11 and Zll Final Bond Release Application ESL-2}, Minrec, It?c., Blue Ribbon <br />Mine <br />Permit No. C-1981-047, Proposed Decision?and Findings of Compliance <br />Ms. Pineda, <br />This letter acknowledges the Office of Surface Mining's (OSM} receipt and review of the above <br />"Proposed Decision and Findings of Compliance" document by the Division of Reclamation, <br />Mining, and Safety tDRMS} dated September 29, 2009. OSM's Denver Field Division ?DFD} <br />a ees with the Proposed Decision document and hereby provides OSM concurrence for the <br />above bond release action in accordance with 30 CFR 740.15 ?d} ?3}, and 30 CFR 906.30, Article <br />I? Section 24, of the Colorado State-Federal Cooperative Agreement. <br />A thorough summary of previous bond release actions and the operational and reclamation <br />history of the mine are accurately captured in the above Proposed Decision document. <br />Notifications of the bond release application were provided to O5M by DRMS. The bond <br />release inspection notifications, DRMS's inspection findings for the bond release inspection, and <br />related correspondence are documented in the Proposed Decision. OSM, the Bureau of Land <br />Management ?BLM}, the USDA-Forest Service ?USFS}, Minrec, Inc. ?Minerec} and Oxbow <br />Mining, LLC were notified of the bond release inspection. . <br />DBMS, Minerec, and QSM represeniratives participated in the bond release inspection on August <br />27 2009. The BLM concurred with the DBMS Proposed Decision in a letter dated October 26, <br />2009 copy enclosed}. DBMS did not receive any obj ections regarding the bond release <br />a lication SL-2 submitted on June 4, 200$. The DRMS Proposed Decision supports the <br />Pp <br />a plicant's compliance with the Colorado approved regulatory program at Rule 3.03.2 and <br />p <br />DRMS's bond release guidelines dated April l 5,1995. Bond release cnteria found in the above <br />regulatory provisions have been met or exceeded by the permittee. <br />The ermit area covers 340.$ acres. The ownership of the minerals and the land includes both <br />p <br />private and federal entities. The surface of the permit area is owned by the U.S. Government <br />and Oxbow, LLC. There are 160.$ acres of private surface and private mineral lands, and 1$0 <br />acres of Federal surface and Federal mineral lands. <br />TAKE PRIDE ?' <br />AMERICA =??.(