2013-12-18_REVISION - C1992080

• Permit No: C1992080
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 12/18/2013
• Doc Name: Adequacy Review No. 2
• From: DRMS
• To: Savage and Savage Environmental
• Type & Sequence: RN4
• Email Name: MLT
• Email Name: SB1
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Savage & Savage
C -1992 -080 / RN -4 PAR No. 2
18- Dec -2013
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retain the light use road for future use. Please submit an application for a revision to
incorporate this letter into Appendix 5 -1 of the permit, and revise the text of Page 5 -3
of the ADP to address retention of the light use road
3. DRMS 04/19: (This issue was also addressed in the Division's 29- Aug -2012 letter to
Oakridge.) Removal and reclamation of the sediment ponds and ditches was
accomplished by OEI in 2009. During the July 2012 inspection, we observed that
portions of the East Collection Ditch and the East Collection Channel — Lower had not
been reclaimed during the 2009 effort. Oakridge felt that because these segments lay
within the bounds of the Ewing Mesa No. I Pit, they were the responsibility of that
permit to reclaim. We have reviewed the construction materials permit, and find that it
specifically states that the ditch remains part of the coal permit. Unless Oakridge can
document otherwise, we believe the reclamation of the East Collection Channel and East
Collection Ditch were and continue to be part of the Coal Permit. Please revise the
reclamation section of the abridged permit document to address these two features.
DRMS 12/18: In the 28 -Aug -2013 cover letter, it is stated that your research does not
lead you to the same conclusion regarding the disposition and responsibility for
reclamation of the east collection ditch/channel, and requested request was made that the
Division provide a reference to the cited sections of the Ewing Mesa No. 1 permit. For
specific information regarding the ravel permit, please contact Russ Means at the
DBMS office located at 101 South 3` , Suite 301, Grand Junction, CO 81501. Mr. Means
may also be reached by telephone: [phone] x8185. For the location of the East
Collection Channel — Lower, please refer to the following permit maps: Surface Water
Control, dated Feb -1998, and Map 5 -913 East Collection Channel — Lower Section.
4. DRMS 12/18: A new map showing the Post - Mining Topography for the permit area was
incorporated into the permit with TR -17 in Oct -2013 (Map CLO in Appendix 5 -12).
Please revise the second paragraph of ADP subsection 2.05.4(2) to direct the reader to the
location of this map, and submit an application for a revision to the permit to remove the
other two maps that reflected PMT: the TR -11 and TR -13 Post - Mining Topography
Maps. (In order to streamline the TR -17 process, new Appendix 5 -12 was created for
insertion, but no other changes were made to the approved permit.)
5. DRMS 12/18: The APD addresses Reconstruction of Carbon Junction Canyon beginning
on Page 5 -10 of the Aug -2013 version. Please expand this section to reflect the work that
was accomplished in the Upper Carbon Junction area in Nov -2013, as approved under
TR -17, and direct the reader to Appendix 5 -12 for details.
2.05.5 — Post Mining Land Uses
I. DBMS 04/19: An alternate post - mining land use of industrial/commercial and
residential was approved for the Carbon Junction Mine in 1996 under TR -05. In July
2012, during a site visit attended by representatives of Oakridge and this agency, the
Division suggested Oakridge might consider changing the land use to rangeland or
wildlife habitat. This would require the establishment of a reclamation success standard,