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~~ <br />(3) <br />We have asked our consultant, Charles F. Leaf who alio <br />attended our meeting with F.YA, to respond to EPA's commends <br />concerning spoil placement and drainage and sedimentationcontrol, <br />maintenance of diversion structures, stability of post-miming <br />slopes, and water availability. Ptr. Leaf's letter to us,land <br />appendices which set forth certain data being supplied by ',him <br />in response to EPA':; inquiries, are attached hereto. Mr. A.eaf's <br />comments fully support CWI's view that its operations as described <br />in its mining plan will be fully in compliance with the applicable <br />standards and regulations. <br />IV. Revegetation - CWI employs Mr. Phillip Flores of~IPhillip <br />Flores Associates, Inc., Landscape Architects and Environ~ental <br />Planners, as its primary consultant on reclamation matters. The <br />reclamation and revegetation plan developed by this firm is <br />extensively discussed in Subsection 4.4 Reclamation Plan of the <br />mining plan (pages 21-29). EPA's characterization of this <br />subsection as "inadequate" because of the absence of irrigation <br />criteria is perplex:inE. As the mining plan points out, irrigation <br />will only be used in the initital reclamation phase to ensure <br />the establishment of the grass crop <br />irrigation should not be necessary. <br />After the crop is e'~Stablished, <br />The EPA response criticizes one of the three grass mixtures <br />listed on page 4-24 of the mining plan. Apparently, the Agency feels <br />b, . <br />