INSPEC02155

• Permit No: M1981021
• IBM Index Class Name: Inspection
• Doc Date: 10/10/2002
• Doc Name: response
• From: dmg
• To: terry
• Inspection Date: 12/18/2001
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
October 7, 2002
Terry V. Wetz ~d
Director of Project Development
International Uranium (USA) Corporation
Independence Plaza, Suite 450
1050 Seventeenth Street
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MINERALS
GEOLOGY
RECLAMATION
MIN ING•SAFETY
Bill Owens
Governor
Greg E. Walther
Executive Director
Ronald W. Cattany
Acting Division Director
Denver, CO 80265
Re: West Sunday Mine, Permit M-1 81-021, Review of Updated Permit Map (Preliminary), Submitted in
Response to Inspection of 12/18/01.
Deaz Mr. Wetz,
I have received the packet of preliminary maps for all the sites affected in the "Sunday Mine Group." Though your
packet included maps and text materials for all five of the separate permit files for the mines in this group, I have
Limited this letter to those responses which address the issues associated with the single permitted mine named
above. My responses concerning the other permitted sites aze contained in separate letters.
First, ]et me thank you for the quality and comprehensiveness of the product you submitted; they are the type of
maps I had hoped would be submitted and I feel they will be of great help in future monitoring and reporting of this
site. The map scales and types of information are appropriate and clearly depicted. I understand the maps were
generated at no small expense, but this depth of endeavor should not have to repeated soon.
With this preliminary map in-hand, we may now define exactly which of the features shown aze to be regarded as
currently disturbed under this permit, which of the permitted features were disturbed but which might now be
considered reclaimed (though not necessarily "released"), and which of the features may be considered "pre-law"
and not subject to reclamation liability. For the items which are to be included in the inventory of active (and
therefore, permitted) features, this map will allow us both to begin to document greater detail conceming an
updated, more realistic reclamation cost figure. This will include details about the size or extent of a feature, its
construction or characteristics, and the type of reclamation required in the final plan.
I have tried to arrange my responses below in the order of the items in your letter, for ease in your review. Not all
of the following items require a response from you.
1. General Location Mau.
Producing this map was a good idea since, as you know, the spatial relationship of this group of sites cannot readily
be understood on single-permit (or partial-permit) maps, as they have existed until now. It is very helpful for those
permits with remote sites such as vent holes, and the roads and overhead power supply structures associated with
them. You offered to submit a copy of the final version of this map for each of the five permit files, which I
appreciate. I think that the general location map would be most beneficial for this file and perhaps for the West
Sunday file. However, since we maintain duplicate copies of these files (one in both the Denver and Durango