2016-08-13_PERMIT FILE - P2016020 ‎(4)‎

• Permit No: P2016020
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 8/13/2016
• Doc Name: Response to Notice of Deficiencies
• From: Minewater
• To: DRMS
• Email Name: MAC
• Email Name: WHE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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VV AUG 13 2016
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION
M i n e Wa to r MINING AND SAFETY
Mr. Michael Cunningham August 13, 2016
Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety --Denver Office
RE: NOTICE OF DEFICIENCIES IN NOI FILE NO.P2016-020
Dear Mr. Cunningham,
Thank you for your letter of August 12, 2016 which contained a detailed review of the NOI
submitted August 8th and noted deficiencies in the NOI. We appreciate and welcome your
review as this process assists us in achieving a better quality outcome from the work program.
For clarity of our response, I have excerpted each deficiency and provided or referenced our
response as appropriate, within the text, below:
1. The Applicant has proposed to disturb 0.5 acres for the prospecting operation. The
disturbance associated with the drill pads and mud pits accounts for 0.25 acres. Please
account for the remaining 0.25 acres of disturbance.
Each drill pad is intended to occupy a 50x5O foot area. We were told by the drilling
contractor that we will be able to minimize the disturbance by having the mud pits within the
drill pad area. If for some reason we are not able to locate the mud pits on the drill pads, we
have accounted for mud pits adjacent to the drill pads and for this reason we estimated a total
disturbance of 0.5 acres.
2. The units were not included for the amount of material proposed to be moved. Please verify
the Operator intends to extract or move 5,700 cubic feet of material.
We intend to extract 5,700 cubic feet(or less) of material. The Form does not allow entry of
units into the box where the quantity is requested, as that section is limited to allow numeric
entry only.
3. The Applicant has stated the drill holes may be used as monitoring wells. Please note that
prospecting drill holes may be converted to monitoring wells in accordance with the
requirements of Rule 5.4.4.
We acknowledge that conversion of the prospecting drill holes to monitoring wells will only
be done in accordance with Rule 5.4.4. If such conversion is not needed and not completed
during our prospecting activities, then we will proceed with plugging and abandonment of all
holes as required.
4. The Applicant is proposing to conduct prospecting on areas recently reclaimed by the
Service yard—10924 Leroy Drive, Northglenn CO 80233
PO Box 3729, Englewood CO 80155