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MINING EXHIBIT - SUPPLEMENTAL PLAN RULE 3.1.13 SPILL REPORTING <br />The applicant HUERFANO COUNTY GOVERNMENT will prepare a Storm Water <br />Management Plan (SWMP). A Spill Prevention Control and Counter measure (SPCC) <br />plan, for this site if necessary under the EPA rules governing the Scope of the <br />operation. As you know each SPCC plan, while unique to the facility it covers, must <br />include certain elements. The elements required are that the SPCC plan be carefully <br />thought out, prepared in accordance with good engineering practices, and should <br />address operating procedures that prevent oil spills; control measures installed to <br />prevent a spill from reaching navigatable waters; and counter measures to contain, <br />clean up, and mitigate the effects of an oil spill that reaches navigable waters. To meet <br />the above requirements a Storm Water Management Plan and a Fuel Berm <br />Management Plan, plus a Spill Prevention Control and Counter Measure Plan will be <br />done for this site. A permit from the Colorado Dept. of Health & Environment Water <br />Quality Control <br />Division will also be obtained. Copies of all of the above plans and permits will also be <br />sent to the Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety. <br />HUERFANO COUNTY GOVERNMENT will commit to placing topsoil and overburden <br />stockpiles along the entire low edge of all the mining phases as a first step of the mining <br />operations; the berms and pits created will control erosion and sedimentation. The <br />operator is committed to control (prevent) erosion and sedimentation from reaching any <br />drainage. All methods of control will be used, sediment traps, riprap, straw bales, <br />earthen berms and liners. <br />Bulk storage of fuel, and small amounts of lubricants, will be stored on site in an earthen <br />berm with an approved liner around and below the storage containers. The earthen <br />structure will have a capacity of at least 110% of the tanks and containers tanks. This <br />type of structure will be leak proof and readily cleanable if a spill does happen. The liner <br />will form a pool that the liquid cannot escape to the surrounding areas. The other <br />features of this structure is that it will be designed in such a way that it will be easy to <br />clean up any possible spills. All spills will be soaked up with an absorbent material such <br />as sand or other substances that can absorb the spilled oils or lubricants. After the <br />mixture of absorbents and oil are cleaned up all the waste materials will be transported <br />to the nearest approved disposal site. <br />HUERFANO COUNTY GOVERNMENT does agree and will commit to Division of <br />Reclamation, Mining and Safety permit condition as stated in the application package. <br />Any reportable spill which is a spill of any toxic or hazardous substance (including spills <br />of petroleum products) within the permit area will be reported to any and /or the Division <br />of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the National Response <br />Center, the Colorado Emergency Planning Commission, a local Emergency Planning <br />Commission, or the State Oil Inspector. In addition the operator shall notify the Division <br />