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(Page 2) <br />MINE ID # OR PROSPECTING ID #: ~-toy~-(1ST <br />INSPECTION DATE: e/~~/a~ INSPECTOROS INITIALS: ~- <br />OBSERVATION <br />The Division conducted a cursory site visit of the operation in association <br />with an SO application. The operator Florence Sand and Gravel has submitted <br />an SO to Florence Sand and Gravel LLC. The only change is the LLC part, it <br />will be the same operator. As part of the Division's policy to evaluate the <br />financial warranty for all sites during such revisions, the Division tried <br />to locate the 1997 conversion application in the imaged documents, but the <br />application document does not appear to have been imaged. The post mining <br />land use is listed as Range Land in the DRMS'S PERMIT SYSYTEM. <br />The Division went on site to look at the file in the presence of Miss Linda <br />Braco, the office manager. The conversion application was not located but <br />the Division did find a letter sent to Mr. Mike Markus, City of Florence, <br />by Lloyd V.Buck Barnhart. In that letter Mr. Barnhart stated that it was a <br />copy of the letter that was sent to DRMS (DMG at that time) which is the <br />Master plan for the site. <br />A) S Acres- Landscaping and retailing, area to be used to store <br />decorative rocks. <br />B) 10-acres- Truck equipment sales parking area. <br />C) 6.1 acres- Present Mining Area. <br />D) 11.5 acres, the areas not to be disturbed until A, B AND C are fully <br />mined out. <br />In the letter Mr. Barnhart stated that, "The main concern with Mr. Ohler's <br />of DMG is, the final reclamation and the fact that he wants the pit floor <br />and back slopes seeded with grass. It is our position that this would be <br />redundant exercise to plant grass and then use the area for truck and heavy <br />equipment storage and movement. It is zoned Industrial by the City and <br />should be acceptable use to MLRB. we are proposing to put 6"to12" plate of <br />sand and gravel on the pit floor for surface and travel area for industrial <br />uses proposed." <br />Since there appears to be some confusion as to what the post mining land <br />use is for the site, the Division requests the operator to provide proof <br />from the City that the site is Zoned Heavy Industrial, also a copy of the <br />conversion application that was submitted in 1997,if possible, which <br />changed the post mining land use from Range Land to Heavy Industrial. Once <br />the Division receives the requested information, there might be no need to <br />adjust the financial warranty and the post mining land use will be changed <br />as approved in the Amendment in 1997. The Division appreciates in advance, <br />the help the operator will provide in resolving this matter. <br />