2018-10-17_REVISION - M2001017

• Permit No: M2001017
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 10/17/2018
• Doc Name Note: Supporting Documents
• From: LG Everist
• To: DRMS
• Type & Sequence: AR2
• Email Name: ECS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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October 12, 2018
Attn: Town Manager
c/o Arthur J. Krieger, Interim Town Manager
Town of Firestone
PO Box 100
151 Grant Avenue
Firestone, CO 50520 (sent via email)
RE: Acceptance of Reclamation As Is of a portion of the "Carbon Valley Parcel"
(located in the east side of the Carbon Valley Resource (DRMS Permit M-2001-017)
Dear Mr. Krieger:
This letter serves as official notice that the required reclamation as defined in Section 8.4 of the Purchase, Sale
and Exchange Agreement (PSE Agreement) between the Town of Firestone(Firestone)and L.G Everist, Inc.
(L.G Everist) has been completed on 59.286 acres of the 60.986 total acres of the "Carbon Valley Parcel" of the
Carbon Valley Resource.
L.G, Everist requests that the Town of Firestone accepts and acknowledges the reclamation"as is"of the 59.286
acres acres of the"Carbon Valley Parcel". The "Carbon Valley Parcel" is described and depicted in Exhibit A-2 of
the PSE Agreement and comprises most of the east side of L.G. Everist's Carbon Valley Resource, which is
permitted under the Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety's (DRMS) Permit M-2001-017.
L.G. Everist has completed all the reclamation obligations on 59.286 acres of the "Carbon Valley Parcel" as per
the DRMS Permit and the PSE Agreement, up to and including initial seeding of the vegetated areas.
Reclamation includes the completion of the following: construction, testing and approval of the compacted Gay
wall liner; backfilling; sloping; grading; and the initial seeding of the site. Access roads have been graded and
graveled to allow for future development and reservoir operations by the Towr Firestone.
The only part o` the "Carbon Valley Parcel" that will not be released from the Carbon Valley Resource's DRMS
permitted area at this time is 1.7 acres in the northwest corner of the parcel which contain the office and shop
area. This area is located outside the water storage reservoir of the "Carbon Valley Parcel' and is needed for the
on-going mining operation in the west side of the Carbon Valley Resource, known as either"Brooks Farm" or
"Area C Licensing requirements (between L.G. Everist and the Tcwn of Firestone)for the "fixtures"(buildings
and scale)in this area are described in the PSE Agreement, Paragraph 3.1 (b) (iii).
The reservoir liner in the"Carbon Valley Parcel" has been approved and certified by the Colorado Office of the
State Engineer(SEO) and meets the SEO's strict design standard See attached copy of the SEO's Clay Liner
Approval letter, dated 09/18118.
All areas requiring vegetation in the area to be released have received two rounds of initial seeding to comply with
vegetation requirements. Reclamation seeding and fertilizing was done in April-201Band again in late August-
2018. LGE has been actively controlling weeds with weed-spraying and mowing over the years In 2018, weeds
were sprayed in May-2018, and the reclaimed areas were mowed in June-2018 and in early August-2018
L.G. Everist is requesting that the Town of Firestone accept the reclamation of the"Carbon Valley Parcel" "as is"
because the DRMS prefers to have self-regenerating growth on reclaimed vegetated areas in order to release
them from a permit_ However, the DRMS will approve an acreage release request when: all reclamation is
acceptably completed up through initial seeding, and the operator has an agreement with a municipality to
purchase the site upon permit release, and the municipality accepts the reclamation "as is".
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