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Technical Revision <br /> Miller Gravel Pit <br /> M-1982-112 <br /> Submitted: March 30, 2017 <br /> General Overview: On February 18, 2016, the Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br /> (DRMS) did an inspection of the Miller Gravel Pit. One of the purposes of the inspection was to <br /> discuss the future disposition of the operation in light of the death of the land owner and permittee, <br /> Mr. Rick L. Hunt. On February 1, 2017,DRMS issued the inspection report from that inspection. <br /> The report noted a problem that it appears the operation had a 30 acre limitation on the amount of <br /> land that could be disturbed at any one time. DRMS determined, based on annual reports,that 64.2 <br /> acres had been disturbed. A Technical Revision was requested to increase the amount of allowable <br /> disturbance to at least 64.2 acres. At the same time,DRMS also increased the bond from $44,146 to <br /> $146,646. The bond set as a result of the 2007 amendment was $43,646. It appears the 2007 DRMS <br /> bond adjustment calculation left out certain aspects of the operation and ignored the 30 acre limitation <br /> as the amount of disturbance at that time was already well in excess of 30 acres. Effectively,this <br /> revision corrects all of these past errors and creates a consistency between the amount and types of <br /> disturbance and the bond. <br /> Actual Affected Land Determination: As a part of the annual report submitted for 2017 a careful <br /> land use inventory map of the property was prepared to complement the actual annual report map. <br /> This map, prepared from a recent satellite image, identified several categories of land uses within the <br /> permit and many land units within those categories. In this way a much more accurate affected land <br /> acreage could be determined. It was found that a total of 53.82 acres of land had been affected as a <br /> direct result of the mining operation. However, the permit area also includes a large area where the <br /> landowner, now deceased, had accumulated large volumes of construction and other waste materials. <br /> All or nearly all of the waste was accumulated after the 2007 amendment. That is also a disturbance <br /> subject to reclamation as it occurs within the permit area and is not a part of the pre-existing uses of <br /> the land within the permit. Adding that,the current affected land area increases to 66.14 acres. <br /> Therefore,this acreage is the amount of affected land that needs to be considered for bonding, at the <br /> minimum. DRMS suggested, via email, that a few more acres be included to allow for some amount <br /> of future mining to occur. Of course, if the construction and other waste storage area were to be <br /> cleaned up and returned to an approximation of its pre-permit condition it would no longer be <br /> considered affected land and that acreage could be applied to future mining which is the primary <br /> Page 1 of 2 <br />