PERMFILE52972

• Permit No: M2005066
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 4/17/2006
• Doc Name: Adequacy review #2
• From: DMG esc
• To: Asphalt Paving Company
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 275
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAx: [phone]
April 17, 2006
Mr. Jeff Keller
Asphalt Paving Company
14$02 W. 44'" Ave.
Golden, CO 80403
RE: Asphalt Paving Company, Application No. M-2005-066 ~
Wattenberg West Sand and Gravel Mine; Adequacy Review #2
Dear Mr. Keller,
COLORADO
DIVISION OF
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GEOLOGY
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Governor
Russell George
Executive Ditettor
Ronald W. Cottony
DIVISIen Dlrec[or
Natural Resauroe Trustee
The Division received your adequacy response to the Division's December 13, 2005 letter regarding the
new permit application for the Wattenberg West Sand and Gravel Mine, File No. M-2005-066. The
Division has a number of remaining items that need to be addressed prior to approval of the application.
Rule 6.4.3 Exhibit C- Pre-Minine and Minim Plan Maps
1. The applicant states that access roads to oil and gas facilities may be relocated within the properly if
agreed to by the facility operator(s). Please be aware that the owners/easement holders of the roads
will need to consent to relocation of the road in the form of a notarized consent agreement. If not
included during the review of this application, it must be submitted in the form of a revision to the
permit. As an alternative, the applicant can commit to maintaining a 200-foot mining off set distance,
or provide an engineering evaluation to mine closer than 200 feet.
Rule 6.4.7 Exhibit G-Water Information
2. Attached, please find addition questions on the hydrology review of the site.
Rule 6.4.10 Exhibit H-Wildlife Information
3. The applicant suggests that mining in the southwestern portion of the site commence once the
burrowing owls have left for the winter. The applicant commits to not commencing stripping in
Phase 1 until the burrowing owl has left fot the winter, which typically will happen in October.
Please specify a date in October in which the applicant will not begin the stripping of material in
Phase I.
Rule 6.4.10 Exhibit J- Vesetation Information
4. Rule 6.4.10 requires the applicant to depict the relation of the types of vegetation to the existing
topography on a map in Exhibi[ C. The applicant provided information that wetlands exist on site
{aeeas A, B and C}. The Division understands that these areas were determined to benon-
jurisdictional. However, there is reference to these wetland areas in the permit application and their
location should be included on the exhibit for reference purposes only.
Office of Office of Colorado
Mined Land Rxlamation Active and Inactive Mines Geological Survey