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• Permit No: M1982141
• IBM Index Class Name: Inspection
• Doc Date: 3/3/1992
• Doc Name: JUNIPER MOUNTAIN QUARRY FN M-82-141 NOV M-92-012
• From: MLRD
• To: MOFFAT LIMESTONE CO
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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4. FORMAL PUBLIC HEARING
MOFFAT LIMESTONE COMPANY File No. M-82-141
P. 0. Box 435
Durango, CO 81302
All persons wishing to give testimony were sworn.
Secs. 3 and 15, T6N, R95W, 6th P.M., Moffat County, 9 acres; 110(2)
surface limestor~e quarry. Consideration of a possible notice of
violation, cease and desist order, corrective actions and civil
penalties for mining and stockpiling outside the permit boundary.
Staff distributed EXHIBIT A, a package of information including a
presentation form, a synopsis of events and a February 10, 1991 letter
to the. Board from the operator, Mr. Charles Butler. Staff also
presented and referenced EXHIBIT B, a location map.
Staff said that this permit (the Juniper Mountain Limestone Quarry) was
approved in August of 1982; on February 16, 1990 a technical revision
to add 2 quarry sites was approved. On November 15, 1991 Staff met
briefly with the operator and discussed the forms necessary to convert
this 110 operation to a 112 operation. Those forms were subsequently
mailed to the operator.
Staff said that in anticipation of receiving the conversion application
( from the operator, the Division conducted a pre-operation inspection at
' the site accompanied by Mr. Darryl Steele, who mined the site for the
company. After leaving the site, Staff realized that permit boundaries
had been misinterpreted and that the operator had been mining outside
of those boundaries. At that time, the Division cited the operator for
a possible violation for mining outside the permit boundaries.
When the Division met with the operator on February 5, 1992 to review
the conversion application, the operator volunteered information that
he had mined outside the permit boundary. The operator stated that he
had become aware of the infraction in September of 1991, and ceased
mining on December 14, 1991.
On February 13, 1992 the Division received a letter from the operator
in which his account of events at the mine were listed; a map on which
the area of current disturbance was included. In that letter, the
operator stated that the BLM was aware of the problem in July of 1991,
however, the BLM did not contact the Division.
On February 19, 1992 the operator agreed to mark the permit boundaries
on the ground. On February 24, 1992 the operator informed Staff that
the conversion application had been mailed to the Division. Staff
showed slides, EXHIBIT C, and discussed the disturbances at the site.
Staff recommended that the Board, as a corrective action, order the
operator to submit an amendment or permit conversion (from a 110 to a
112) which includes the added area of disturbance by March 25, 1992. A