2014-04-22_REVISION - C1981038

• Permit No: C1981038
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 4/22/2014
• Doc Name: Preliminary Adequacy Review ‎(Emailed)‎
• From: DRMS
• To: Bowie Resources, LLC
• Type & Sequence: TR58
• Email Name: MLT
• 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 84203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
22 April 2014
Basil Bear
Bowie Resources, LLC
P.O. Box 1488
Paonia, CO 81428
Re: Bowie No.1 Mine — Permit No. C -1981 -038
Technical Revision No. 58 (TR -58) — Sediment Pond Reclamation
Preliminary Adequacy Review
Dear Mr. Bear:
COLORADO
D I V IS ION OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
John W. Mickenlooper
Governor
Mike King
Executive Director
Virginia Brannon
Director
The Division received an application for TR -58, prepared by J.E. Stover & Associates on behalf
of Bowie Resources, LLC (BRL), on March 19, 2014. The application was deemed complete for
purposes of filing on March 28, 2014.
Proof of publication for the applicant's Public Notice was received on April 17, 2014. The
notice appeared in the Delta County Independent on Wednesday, April 9, 2014, initiating a ten -
day period for public comment which extended through Monday, April 21, 2014. No comments
or objections to the TR-58 application were received.
With TR -58, BRL is seeking approval to remove the sediment ponds and alternate sediment
control structures at the West Mine and Timber Storage (a.k.a. Run- of-Mine or ROM) areas of
the Bowie No, 1 Mine. The application included revised pages 21 and 22 of Volume 1 Part 2.05;
a Soil Loss Comparison for insertion into Volume 8A; and a 2013 Vegetation Inventory, not
intended for insertion into the permit.
Sedimentation ponds for the mine are discussed in subsection 2.05.3(3) of the permit, beginning
on page 15. Pond designs and as -built plans are found in permit Volume 6 Phase III Stability
Analyses (OVWM Sheets 1 thru 10); Volume 8 (East Roatcap Creek Culvert -- Sheets 1 and 2)
and Volume 8A (Maps 8A -3, -16, -17, -18, and -19).
The Division has reviewed the application, and has the following adequacy comments.
1. BRL has provided soil loss comparison information for the West Mine and ROM areas
compared to pre -mine conditions. The comparison provided by BRL, a Revised
Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUBLE) calculation, concludes that reclaimed areas are
not contributing sediment in excess of pre -mine levels. The RUBLE demonstration can
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