2015-11-07_REVISION - M2010049

• Permit No: M2010049
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 11/7/2015
• Doc Name: Application AM01
• From: Varra Companies, Inc.
• To: DRMS
• Type & Sequence: AM1
• Email Name: PSH
• Email Name: WHE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Varra Companies, Inc.
OFFICE OF SPECIAL PROJECTS
8120 Ga2e Street Frederick,CO 80516 Telephone[phone] Fax[phone]
It is our understanding that the selection should not restrict the
establishment of developing the location in a manner that elevates
the land to the highest level of Use attainable under its diverse
parts. It would appear logical that if the entire permit area cannot
be put into a basin that above ground portions will form an
alternative, and hence, multiple, Use. To narrow the range of
acceptable uses within the framework of acceptable reason and
purpose is unnaturally constrained and at odds with the purposes of
reclamation.
The current understanding of the OMLR, appears to place the
operator in a Catch 22, whereby the above ground portions of the
permit will be at odds with the completed basin. If necessary, the
applicant will provide a change in the Use requested by the OMLR
to that of `Developed Water Resources,' with the understanding that
all above water portions of the reclaimed permit area will revert to
the existing Industrial/Commercial designations of Weld County,
Colorado without impeding the diverse potential Use of the
contained waters.
From the 13 March 2011 Adequacy Reply:
1. The Applicant has stated a Technical Revision may be
submitted to allow for the lining of the pits. As noted in the Division's
previous Adequacy Review Letter, the Division considers lined pits to
be a developed water resource, which would constitute a significant
change from the proposed post-mining land use of
industrial/commercial and would require an Amendment rather than a
Technical Revision. The Division understands mine sites may be
reclaimed to multiple land uses. However, if the Applicant does not
identify `developed water resource' as one of the post-mining land
uses, then the Applicant will be required to amend the Reclamation
Permit should they decide to line the pits in the future. It is common
practice to identify multiple post-mining land uses on the permit
application. The Applicant should be familiar with this practice as
they have identified multiple post-mining land uses on previously
submitted permit applications (copy enclosed). The Applicant may
revise page four of the permit application to include multiple post-
mining land uses.
Varra Companies, Inc. Western Sugar Land Development Project 6
OMLR Permit #: M-2010-049 Amendment 7 December 2015