APPCOR12340

• Permit No: C2006085
• IBM Index Class Name: Application Correspondence
• Doc Date: 12/12/2006
• Doc Name: Charles Overton Comments
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Statement of Charles Overton public meeting 12 Dec 2006 Northfield Mine Project page 4 of 10
Extracted from Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation
Board for Coal Mining
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2.04.5 General Description of Hydrology and Geology.
11o(2)(k) (1) Each application shall contain a description and map, prepared in ac-
~ io(2)(q cordance with 2.10, of the geology, surace and ground water systems,
including water quality and quantity, of all lands within the proposed
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Section 2.04.5
permit area, the adjacent area, and the general area. The description
shall include information on the characteristics of all surface and
ground waters within the general area, and any water which will flow into
or receive discharges of water from the general area. The description shall
be prepared according to 2.04.5 and 2.04.7, and conform to the following:
(a) Information on surface and groundwater systems including
water quality, water quantity, and geology related to the hydrology
of areas outside the permit area and within the general area shall
be provided by the Division, to the extent that this data is available
from an appropriate Federal or State agency.
(b) If this information is not available from those agencies, the
applicant may gather and submit this information to the Division
as part of the permit application.
(c) The permit shall not be approved by the Division until this
information is made available in the application.
(2) The use of approved modeling techniques may be included as part of
the permit application, but the same surface and ground water information
may be required for each site as when models are not used.
(3) Permit applications may comply with the requirements of 2.04.5(1),
2.04.6(1)(a), 2.04.6(2)(a) and 2.04.7 by providing accurate descriptive
and predictive information relating to geology, water quality and quantity
for the area to be affected over the estimated life of the operation based
upon extrapolation by an expert in the field from documented data on the
geology, water quality and quantity of similar areas, provided that the data
used by the expert is included within the permit application, the expert
opinion is approved by the Division and all such data are made available
to the public for review and comment.
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2.04.7 Hydrology Description.
(1) Ground Water Information