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MONTROSE, Colo.—A draft finding by federal land managers says a proposal for Bowie Resources to expand its coal leases near Paonia won’t have significant impacts.
The public has until May 30 to submit comments on the Bureau of Land Management’s draft finding.
Bowie wants to add a total of about 500 acres to two of its federal leases in hopes of recovering about 3.25 million tons of coal.
The Bowie No. 2 Mine has been in operation since November 1997. The BLM says the mine produced about 2.5 million tons of coal in 2011 and has 297 employees, most of whom live in Delta County. The agency says Delta County received $860,000 in tax revenues from Bowie in 2011.
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