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August 28, 2017 <br />M-1977-305 <br />TCO2 <br />✓COMPLIED! <br />� k✓ s <br />C RM <br />kf <br />Mr. G. Russell Means <br />Senior Environmental Protection Specialist <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />�ECEJVE® <br />AUG 312017 <br />'ION OF RECLAMATION <br />MINING AND SAFETY <br />Re: C -LP -21 Mine, Permit No. M-1977-305, Notice of Temporary Cessation <br />Dear Mr. Means: <br />Thank you for your letter dated June 29, 2017, addressing the status of the C -LP -21, CM -25, and <br />SR -13A Mines. On July 31, 2017, Cotter Corporation (N.S.L.) ("Cotter") responded to your <br />letter insofar as it covers the permit for the CM -25 Mine. Cotter here responds to your letter <br />insofar as it covers the permit for the C -LP -21 Mine, which has been in temporary cessation <br />since December 15, 2012. Cotter is submitting a separate response to your letter insofar as it <br />covers the permit for the SR -13A Mine, which also has been in temporary cessation since <br />December 15, 2012. <br />As more fully set forth below, and consistent with your letter to Cotter dated June 29, 20I7 <br />regarding the JD -9, JD -6, and JD -7 Mines, Cotter requests that the permit for the C -LP -21 Mine <br />remain in temporary cessation for a second five-year period commencing December 15, 2017. <br />Cotter also requests a hearing before the Mined Land Reclamation Board ("Board") pursuant to <br />Colo. Rev. Stat. § 34-32-103(6)(a)(I11) and Hard Rock/Metal Mining Rule 1.13.5(1)(b) to <br />confirm such status. <br />Your letter addressing the C -LP -21 Mine reports initially that, on May 7, 2013, the Board signed <br />an order approving Cotter's request to put the permit for the C -LP -21 Mine into an initial five- <br />year period of temporary cessation, effective December 15, 2012. While Cotter agrees with this <br />assessment, it respectfully adds that its request to put the C -LP -21 Mine into temporary cessation <br />was made at the request of the Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety ("Division"), as set <br />forth in the Division's letter to Cotter dated November 9, 2012. <br />Cotter respectfully disagrees with the statements in your letter that the C -LP -21 Mine has <br />reached its permit conclusion and that Cotter must now request a release of its permit and <br />associated financial warranties. Substantial economic reserves continue to exist in the C -LP -21 <br />Mine, and these reserves can be mined in the future. This fact was acknowledged in the <br />Division's inspection report for the C -LP -21 Mine, signed July 30, 2010: "The mine was <br />reclaimed due to economic reasons and not ore reserve depletion. Should favorable economic <br />183 y er Corporation Telephone (720) 554-6200 <br />��b E Dorado Place, Suite 210, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Fax (720) 554-6201 <br />