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Memo to PCPC • <br />Re: SUP No. 671 (Amended) 1-Year Review <br />January 12, 1998 <br />Page 7 <br />grade and repair the agreed-upon access road to the standards identified <br />in Condition of Approval No. 18 at the time large-project hauling <br />operations begin. The current condition of the road will deteriorate <br />rapidly with any additional hauling activity. Staff requests the road <br />conditions be repaired within 90 days of this approval or prior to <br />beginning any hauling operations, whichever occurs first. <br />• A large, welded-iron-pipe gate was being constructed by Mr. Harv Smith <br />across the private access road entry point at Baculite Mesa Road. The <br />gate appears to be constructed either within the private road easement or <br />within the Baculite Mesa Road right-of-way. Mr. Smith indicated the gate <br />was agreed to by the landowners and leaseholders upon the Baculite <br />Mesa. Staff could not confirm this with other landowners, but did confirm <br />that the applicant's representative was not aware of the potential <br />obstruction the gate represents. <br />• The site and the surrounding property are rangeland. <br />2. Staff spoke with the applicant's Representative, Mr. Buck Barnhart, who <br />indicates extraction activity took place in 1996 that provided road-base materials <br />to the Highway 47 construction project. Subsequent to the highway project, only <br />limited amounts of material have been extracted to serve small-quantity projects <br />or customers (1-10 loads per customer was typical over 1997). Mining activity <br />appears to be located within the same pit area as originally approved under the <br />40-acre description. <br />3. Staff spoke with the applicant's representative regarding several conditions of <br />approval that might present a problem as currently approved. Mr. Barnhart <br />suggested a slight modification to condition numbers 16, 17, and 20 which would <br />delete the text "Notwithstanding the regulations administered by the State of <br />Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division" as this phrase requires the <br />condition be complied with regardless of the applicable State Regulations. <br />Conditions 16 and 17 pertained to drainage and reclamation activities which <br />would be governed by State Regulations administered by two different State <br />agencies each having review and approval authority over the mining activity. <br />Should either agency require a different plan than specified by the SUP, the <br />applicant would be prevented from proceeding until the SUP could be modified <br />or the agency altered its regulations. Condition No. 20 pertained to a visual <br />buffer along the Baculite Mesa, which does not need the additional phrase as <br />originally approved. Staff supports these slight modifications. <br />