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COLORADO <br />Division of Reclamation, <br />Mining and Safety <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />Memo <br />Date: April 30, 2015 <br />To: Tabetha Lynch, DRMS <br />From: Jared Ebert, DRMS <br />RE: Trapper Mining, Inc., Permit C- 1981 -010 <br />Midterm Review No. 7. (MT7) Review Memo <br />I have conducted a review of Trapper's permit for compliance with the rules listed below. For each of my <br />assigned sections, I provided a brief discussion of where in the permit these items are addressed. <br />Adequacy issues are included as bulleted items within each section they pertain. These items have been <br />worded so that they can be included in your MT7 review document. Please let me know if you have any <br />questions. <br />Rule 2.04.3 Baseline Site Description/Land Use Information <br />Rule 2.04.3(1) -(4) <br />(])The permit contains a description of the existing, premining environmental resources in section 2.0 of <br />the permit. The section includes subsections describing the following; cultural and historic resources in <br />section 2.9, hydrology and geology in section 2.7, climatological information in section 2. 1, soil resource <br />information in section 2.6; vegetation information in section 2.3, fish and wildlife information in section <br />2.4 and a prime farmland discussion in section 2.6.2.1 of the permit. The pre - mining land use of the <br />Trapper Mine area is discussed in section 2.5 of the permit. <br />(2)(a)Map M28 of the permit depicts the pre- mining land use for the land within the permit area. <br />Currently, Map 28 is being revised with PR7 and is being updated for the permit area expansion. <br />(2)(b)A narrative of the capability of the land before any mining is discussed in section 2.5 of the permit. <br />Trapper utilized Soil Conservation Service data and vegetation sampling data to describe the capability <br />and productivity of the land prior to mining. <br />(3)Previous mining activity occurred within the permit area. Details regarding this activity are discussed <br />in section 3.1.3 of the permit and map series M5A —M5D depicts where the mining activities occurred. <br />(4) Land use descriptions are discussed in section 2.5 of the permit. <br />The sections of the permit addressing this rule appear adequate and no additional information is needed. <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215, Denver, CO 80203 P 303.866.3567 F 303.832.8106 http: / /mining.state.co.us <br />John W. Hickenlooper, Governor I Mike King, Executive Director I Virginia Brannon, Director <br />OF' col <br />\876. <br />