2017-11-20_ENFORCEMENT - M2007044

• Permit No: M2007044
• IBM Index Class Name: Enforcement
• Doc Date: 11/20/2017
• Doc Name: Board ‎(MLRB)‎ Order
• From: DRMS
• To: Energy Fuels Resources ‎(USA)‎ Inc.
• Email Name: SJM
• Email Name: GRM
• Email Name: AJW
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

BEFORE THE MINED LAND RECLAMATION BOARD
STATE OF COLORADO J
FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OFILAW, AND ORDER
IN THE MATTER OF THE REQUEST OF ENE ZGY FUELS RESOURCES (USA),
INC. FORA SECOND FIVE-YEAR PERIOD OF TEMPORARY CESSATION,
File No. M-2007-044
THIS MATTER came before the Mined
October 25, 2o17 in Denver for a hearing to coi
temporary cessation filed by Energy Fuels Res(
number M-2007-044 ("permit"), Stephanie M
First Assistant Attorney General Jeff Fugate aF
Reclamation, Mining and Safety ("Division").
appeared on behalf of Operator. Jeff Parsons,
Network for Responsible Mining ("INFORM").
The Board, having considered the pres,
Division'; Operator; and INFORM, and being
matter, enters the following;
FINDINGS
d Reclamation Board ("Board") on
er the request for a second period of
!es (USA), Inc. ("operator"), file
ell, Russ Means, Tony Waldron, and
red on behalf of the Division of
t Bakken and Michael Hegarty, Esq.
. appeared on behalf of Information
, testimony, and evidence of the
e fully informed of the facts in the
FACT
1. Operator holds a 112(d-1) reclamai ion permit for a 31.91 -acre uranium
mining operation located in Section 36, Township 51 North, Range 95 West, 10th
Principal Meridian, Mesa County. The site is known as the Whirlwind Mine. The site is
a designated mining operation.
2. On September 10, 2008, the Di
for the Whirlwind Mine.
3. On June S, 2009, the site went
Revision 1.
4. On May 7, 2013, the Mined Land
period of Temporary Cessation ("TC -1") for the
19, 2012.
5. On April 17, 2017, the Division
would expire on September 19, 2017.
issued permit number M-2007-044
Intermittent status per Technical
enation Board approved the first
with an effective date of September
written notice to Operator that TC -1
1 The Division was advisory staffto the Board, not a T'arty, in this proceeding.