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Exhibit G - Water Information <br />6.4.7 EXHIBIT G - Water Information <br />(1) If the operation is not expected to directly affect surface or groundwater systems, <br />a statement of that expectation shall be submitted. <br />(2) If the operation is expected to directly affect surface or groundwater systems, the <br />Operator/Applicant shall: <br />(a) Locate on the map (in Exhibit C) tributary water courses, wells, springs, <br />stock water ponds, reservoirs, and ditches on the affected land and on <br />adjacent lands where such structures may be affected by the proposed <br />mining operations; <br />(b) Identify all known aquifers; and <br />(c) Submit a brief statement or plan showing how water from de -watering <br />operations or from runoff from disturbed areas, piled material and <br />operating surfaces will be managed to protect against pollution of either <br />surface or groundwater (and, where applicable, control pollution in a <br />manner that is consistent with water quality discharge permits), both <br />during and after the operation. <br />(3) The Operator/Applicant shall provide an estimate of the project water <br />requirements including flow rates and annual volumes for the development, <br />mining and reclamation phases of the project. <br />(4) The Operator/Applicant shall indicate the projected amount from each of the <br />sources of water to supply the project water requirements for the mining <br />operation and reclamation. <br />(5) The Operator/Applicant shall affirmatively state that the Operator/Applicant has <br />acquired (or has applied for) a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System <br />(NPDES) permit from the Water Quality Control Division at the Colorado <br />Department of Health, if necessary. <br />This Amendment is intended to satisfy the option of lining approved basins. The basins <br />identified in the original Office of Mined Land Reclamation (OMLR) permit are presently <br />approved and bonded for both the lined and unlined state. The permit provides for the <br />option that the basins be Tined in order to liberate the waters presently securing the <br />exposed groundwater in the unlined condition. The previous effort to detail the <br />methodology and procedures to line the basins with the approved change in the original <br />permit via a technical revision were later rejected defacto by the Office of Mined Land <br />Reclamation (OMLR), and an Amendment to assure notification of adjacent landowners <br />was mandated instead. This submittal is intended to satisfy that mandate to assure the <br />assure the OMLR that lined basins will comply with state law. <br />To satisfy the concerns of the OMLR, included with this revision is a report on the <br />potential for shadowing and mounding by AWES, LLC of 27 June 2013. The report <br />concludes: <br />Varra Companies, Inc. Permit M-2010-049 1 <br />Western Sugar Reclamation Land Development Project OMLR 112 Permit Amendment 2015 <br />