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93 1 pond after? 1 A. No, not specifically. 2 A. It did. It did recede. 2 MR. STUTZ: Okay. That's all the 3 Q. Do you know if any -- do you believe 3 questions I have. 4 any of that water reached the mine workings? 4 MR. SINGLETARY: Okay. Any more 5 A. That has been undetermined. I don't 5 questions here? 6 know that. 6 We'll move on to the next, I believe. 7 Q. No tests have been cone to determine 7 MR. ROBERTS: Mr. Schultz, no more 8 that? 8 witnesses for the Division? 9 A. That's not correct. The Fugro test 9 MR. SCHULTZ: No. 10 had -- a portion of that pond was included in the 10 MR. ROBERTS: Thank you. 11 test. I11 MR. SINGLEPARY: Applicant's 12 Q. And the detemunation made by the 12 presentation. 13 Fugro report was that there was no cmulnication 13 MR. JUSTUS: I'd like to first call 14 between the Carey Pond and the mine workings? i14 Mr. Jim Hild as -- you'll have to give me a m rent 15 A. I don't know the answer to that 15 to transition to the applicant's presentation. 16 question because as a coal program director, I no 16 EXAMINATION. 17 longer do the technical adequacy reviews. Jim 17 BY MR. JUSTUS: 18 Stark, the senior environmental protection 18 Q. All right. Mr. Hild, you were 19 specialist, who signed and approved TR-69, did that 19 earlier sworn in. For the record, would you go 20 review, and his specialists reviewed it as well. 20 ahead and state your name and business address for 21 So I don't do that detailed level of 21 the record. 22 technical review. I rely on my senior staff to 22 A. Yes. Excuse me. My name is Jim 23 recmmend approval to me. 23 Hild. I'm a geophysicist with Fugro, Incorporated, 24 Q. Has anything been said to you by them 24 and we are located in Building 22 of Denver West, 25 about this? 25 Lakewood, Colorado. 93 95 1 A. We've had discussions. Nothing 1 Q. Okay. What is your position with 2 specific. 2 Fugro? 3 Q. Has anyone expressed the opinion that 3 A. I'm a principal geophysicist. 4 this water is migrating into the mine workings? 4 Q. Okay. Do you have any professional 5 A. From? 5 licensures? 6 Q. The Carey Pond. 6 A. I do. I have a license in Florida, 7 A. There has been indications in the 7 Kentucky, Oregon, and Wyaning. 8 past that if water is put in the pond that it 8 Q. Okay. If you could, would you please 9 expresses at the south portal. That -- that was 9 for the Board give a summary of your educational 10 documted back in 2012. 10 background after high school? 11 Q. And yet this technical revision — it A. Yes. I attended Rensselaer 12 A. Did not address that. 12 Polytechnic Institute it Troy, New York; got a 13 Q. -- did not address that issue? 13 bachelor of science in geology in 1974. In 1976 I 14 A. Did not address that. This was -- 14 carpleted a master's of science in geology, again at 15 Technical Revision 69 was limited in scope. It was 15 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 16 the low-hanging fruit, so to speak. We knew this 16 Q. Okay. Sounds like you've got over 40 17 hole was here. We knew it was an immediate problem, 17 years of experience since obtaining your 18 and that's what TR-69 is designed to do, is to plug 18 undergraduate. Would you go ahead and provide the 19 that hole and stop that commrnication. 19 Board with a summary of your eaplopment history and 20 Q. It's not designed as an overall 20 the type of projects you've worked on over that 21 solution to -- 21 period of time? 22 A. That's correct. 22 A. Yes. Excuse me. Out of college I 23 Q. -- hydrologic cmMinication from 23 worked for a carpany called Rocky Mountain Energy 24 areas like the Carey property or pond into the mine 24 doing uranium exploration, geological mapping, 25 workings? 25 sampling, sane geophysical work there. 94 96