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Cramer, Johanna <br />From: Boulay, Mike <br />Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 10:06 AM <br />To: Cramer, Johanna <br />Subject: FW: Oxbow MR -95 <br />Attachments: Oxbow MR95 PermitActionReview.docx <br />NOW <br />Here is the e -mail from the U.S. Forest Service that I spoke with you about. Please scan both the message <br />from Daniel Gray (below) and the attachment (above) in Elk Greek Mine Permit No. G -1981 -022, -95. Let <br />me know if you have any questions. <br />From: Daniel E Gray [mailto:degray(d)fs.fed.us] <br />Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:53 AM <br />To: Boulay, Mike; Jim.Kiger(a)oxbow.com <br />Cc: Ryan Z Taylor; Levi Broyles <br />Subject: Oxbow MR -95 <br />Mr. Boulay: <br />The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forest (GMUG) has completed its review of Oxbow Mining's MR- <br />95. MR -95 identifies the need to drill an additional sixteen (16) angle boreholes in panels 17 and 18 to facilitate methane <br />drainage. Of these sixteen boreholes, only eight (8) are on Forest Service surface: the 17 -06B and 17 -06C, the 17 -08B <br />and 17 -08C, the 18 -06B and 18 -06C, and the 18 -09B and 18 -09C angle boreholes. <br />As a result of our review of the adequacy of measures to protect federal resources and the post- mining land use, we <br />identified that the project impacts are similar to those analyzed in Oxbow's previous TR -64 and TR -65. Attached is a list <br />of conditions needed to protect federal resources and to support the post- mining land use of aspen management, as <br />defined by the GMUG Forest Plan. These conditions are identical to the conditions submitted for the previous technical <br />revisions. <br />Of note is that several conditions relate to operations in an inventoried roadless area (IRA). These are needed to satisfy <br />direction we received to minimize entry into, and alteration of the inventoried roadless area. As part of our review, we <br />assessed that no new road construction or surface disturbance is necessary in the inventoried roadless area. <br />Please contact me with any questions you may have. <br />Sincerely, <br />Daniel Gray (Natural Resource Specialist (Minerals) /Paonia Ranger District <br />