2010-11-12_REVISION - C1980004

• Permit No: C1980004
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 11/12/2010
• Doc Name: Adequacy Review Memo
• From: Mike Boulay
• To: Johanna Cramer, Joe Dudash, Dan Mathews, Jim Stark and Marcias Talvitie
• Type & Sequence: PR2
• Email Name: JRC
• Email Name: JJD
• Email Name: DTM
• Email Name: JRS
• Email Name: MLT
• Email Name: MPB
• Email Name: SB1
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO:
FROM:
DATE:
COLORADO
DIVISION OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
Johanna Cramer, Joe Dudash, Dan Mathews, Jim Stark, and Marcia Talvitie
Mike Boulay M 5
November 12, 2010
SUBJECT: McClane Canyon Mine (Permit No. C- 1980 -004)
Permit Revision No. 2 (PR -2) Adequacy Review
The permit revision application for the proposed McClane Canyon Mine expansion of the surface
facilities and mine plan was deemed complete November 10, 2010 and our adequacy review is due to
be completed no later than January 9, 2011. Dan Mathews and I have been involved in planning
meetings with the operator and their consultant(s) for this project primarily regarding required
baseline studies and reevaluation of the AVF determination. For those of you not familiar with the
project, the following brief description is provided.
McCIane Canyon Mine currently trucks about 280,000 tons of coal per year to the Cameo Power
plant (currently the Mine's only customer). The Cameo Power plant is scheduled to close at the end
of 2010. In order to continue the operations, McClane Canyon Mining intends to increase
production to 500,000 clean tons per year and build a cleaning plant and associated facilities. The
coal will then be loaded into trucks and hauled to the proposed Fruita Loadout for rail shipment.
This is an extensive revision including a new coal cleaning plant, diversion of McClane Creek in a
660 foot long culvert, reshaping of the canyon topography below the mine portal to accommodate a
crushing and screening facility, air jig plant, product and coal mine waste stockpiles and various
conveyors. The permit boundary will be expanded and a new coal mine waste pile, sediment pond,
and a topsoil and construction material stockpiles will be located south of the existing McClane
Canyon Mine facilities.
A large portion of the permit application package (PAP) has been revised including sections 2 and 3
have been entirely rewritten and most of the pertinent Appendices and Figures have been redone. The
PAP is three volumes; Volume I Text & Tables, Volume H Figures, Volume III Appendices. I am
requesting review assistance as follows:
Identification of Interests, Compliance Information, and AVS review, Pen Application
Package Volume I Section 1 and Appendix A - Johanna;
Office of
Office of
Mined Land Reclamation Denver • Grand Junction Durango Active and Inactive Mines