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September 21, 2017 Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety 1313 Sherman St. Room 215 Denver, CO 80203Crt RE: Timnath Connell Pit, Permit M-1999-050 Request for Technical Revision Hydrologic Balance—Groundwater monitoring N Corrective Action Requirement for Inspection May 15, 2017 MLRB NOV No. MV-2017-034—Order—Update GW Monitoring Plan 8-14-2017 Mr. Jared Ebert, co co co Reference is made to the Minerals Program Inspection Report Dated May 15, 2017— 0 Hydrologic Balance —Groundwater Monitoring. o Reference is made to the MLRB NOV No. MV-2017-034— Board Order— "Operator shall submit a Technical Revision to the Division within 60 days of the effective date of the Board Order, updating the groundwater monitoring plan. o The original Groundwater Monitoring plan was required by a Technical Revision to 0 satisfy a neighboring property to the south in 1999. The property owner operated what F- is known as Swift Ponds. In spite of a statewide drought, the property owner believed the level of the ponds were affected by the groundwater changes from mining. cc To settle the dispute, CRI agreed to build recharge lakes and established a groundwater N monitoring plan. 0 Connell Resources Inc. submits the following basis of fact for a modification of the 2 Groundwater Monitoring plan: • The property was acquired by Colorado Youth Outdoors in 2006. According to Colorado Youth Outdoors the water levels have not been a concern since they 00 have owned the property. (For confirmation call Bob Hewson Executive Director or Rob Anderson Facility Caretaker 970 663-0800) • Connell Resources Inc. provides it's over allocated water supply to the Swift Ponds/Colorado Youth Outdoors site through a culvert from the Connellcc Resources Inc. recharge ponds. cc • Once the recharge ponds were fully functional the water levels at the Swift Pond site stabilized and have never been in question since that time. CONNELL