2008-01-25_REVISION - C1996083

• Permit No: C1996083
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 1/25/2008
• Doc Name: Adequacy Review Letter
• From: DRMS
• To: Bowie Resources, LLC
• Type & Sequence: TR52
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
January 25, 2008
Mr. William A. Bear
Bowie Resources LLC
P.O. Box 483
Paonia, Colorado 81428
STATE OF COLORADO

RE: Bowie No. 2 Mine, Permit No. C-96-083, Bowie Resources LLC
Technical Revision No. 52, Thirteen Gob Vent Boreholes, Adequacy Review
Dear Mr. Bear:
COLORADO
D I V I S I ON OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor
Harris D. Sherman
Executive Director
Ronald W. Cattany
Division Director
Natural Resource Trustee
The Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (Division) has finished its adequacy review of
Bowie Resources LLC's (BRL) submittal of Technical Revision No. 52 (TR-52) for the Bowie No. 2 Mine.
The following are the Division's questions and comments:
Section 2.03.6. Right of Entry and Operation Information
Please provide documentation that the USDA-Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management
approve of this project. The Division understands that the NEPA process will be utilized for TR-52.
Section 2.05.4. Reclamation Plan
2. In the cover letter for the TR-52 submittal, BRL requested incremental bonding so that the total bond
would be divided into three annual portions for the three years that the entire project is expected to
take, rather than requiring the submittal of the total reclamation bond up front for approval of TR-52.
The Division finds incremental bonding acceptable provided the following methodology is used.
TR-52 would only be applicable for approximate bore hole and road locations and would not involve
any reclamation bond at this time. However, for each of the three years that the proposed drilling
program is planned, Bowie would have to submit a minor revision which would approve the exact
borehole and road locations for that year and which would include the reclamation bond for that year's
drilling. Also, Bowie would have to submit an annual report that would give details on the drilling and
abandonment activities that occurred the year before, as well as a running account of the status of each
well originally proposed in TR-52. Given this additional requirement, please inform the Division
whether or not BRL still intends to do incremental bonding for TR-52.
The Division has not started calculating the reclamation cost estimate for the thirteen gob vent
boreholes proposed in TR-52. BRL's answer to the above question concerning incremental bonding
will determine if the cost estimate will appear in TR-52 or in three future minor revisions. The
Division has started its review of the reclamation cost estimate credit for GVB-6F, as had been
requested by BRL in the TR-52 cover letter. When this bond estimate review is completed, the
Division will send BRL a copy of the reclamation cost estimate for BRL's review.
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