PERMFILE44985

• Permit No: M1999004
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 6/4/1999
• Doc Name: TABLE MOUNTAIN CASTLE CONCRETE PERMIT FREMOUNT CNTY
• From: BOARD OF LAND COMMISSIONERS
• To: DMG
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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STATE OF COLORADO
BOARD OF LAND COMMISSIONERS
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 620
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FA%: (3031 866-3152
June 4, 1999
Berhan Keffelew
Division of Minerals and Geology
1313 Sherman Street, Room 215
Denver CO 80203
RECEIVED
JUN 0 4 1999
Division of Minerab & Geology
Subject: Table Mountain Castle Concrete Permit, Fremont County.
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DEPARTMENT OF
NATURAL
RESOURCES
Bill Owens
Governor
Greg E. Walther
Executive Director
Charles E Bedford
Division Dueclor
Dear Mr. Keffelew:
The State Land Board has issued a lease to Castle Concrete for portions of Table
Mountain just off Highway 115 south of Colorado Springs. As you know, an abandoned
quarry exists in the lease area for which extensive reclamation is needed. The Land Board
Commissioners toured the property, recognized the necessity for reclamation and directed the
staff to issue a quarry lease to Castle with a clear understanding as to what the reclamation
would entail.
The long-term plan for the property leaves open the option to develop it commercially
that may include ranchettes or similar uses. The Land Board also sees Table Mountain as one
of the very nice tracts of property of great interest to our Public Access Program. Its primary
uses have been grazing and scattered mining activities. The Land Board views mining as
temporary, the results of which will make the property safer for future uses.
The main access to the top of the mountain and to the north face is a fairly good road
leaving Highway 115. This road usually is heavily traveled. Only lately did the Board curb its
use to persons having a legal access right such as High Plains Stone, Western Nutrients, Castle
Concrete, Division of Wildlife managers, Colorado State Forest agents, and parties accessing
the federal parcels in this area. Soon, a grazing lessee will be reinstalled on the property. All
of these parties will continue to have a right to use the access road.
The Land Board is responsible for road upkeep and contracts for maintenance. In many
cases (such as Rio Grande Portland Cement in Pueblo) the lessee will assist in road
maintenance. This is what we envision for the multiple use access road at Table Mountain. The
Land Board is responsible for the road. It will allow and encourage upgrades to the road
because these modest improvements will benefit the property long after the mining and
reclamation is complete.
Since this is the main access road, we would prefer that it not be included in the
reclamation permit area. We anticipate continued use of this road by other authorized users,
and inclusion of this road in the reclamation permit area complicates our management of this
Luanne C. Hazelrigg, Jay P.K. Kenney, John R. Stulp, Thomas W. Swanson, Charles A. Vidal