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<br />Mr. Bob Freitag <br />Page -2- <br />Listed below are my questions/comments which are intended to help bring Park <br />County into compliance with the Pained Land Reclamation Act. <br />Several questions or thoughts of general nature kept coming to mind during my <br />review. Rather than continually restate each of these, they are listed here <br />for you. <br />1. If any of your operations require onsite crushing, I suggest <br />you contact the state Health Department for their requirements <br />regarding a fugitive dust permit. <br />2. If any of your operations have encountered water or you expect <br />to encounter water (surface or subsurface) or use local water <br />from a stream, well to control dust, you should contact the <br />State's Water Resources Division for requirements regarding <br />compliance with State water laws. <br />3. As a stabilization measure, topsoil stockpiled for one <br />growing season or more should be planted with a perennial <br />grass such as Western wheatgrass at a typical broadcast rate <br />rate of 6 lbs. PLS/acre. <br />4. Have you met all the publication requirements found in Rule <br />2.22 p. 21 of the Rules and Regulations? You have apparently <br />met all the pits except Sulphur Mountain and Woodside park. <br />You must publish twice on these, even though the later will be <br />for landfill and reclamation. Also, check to make sure you <br />have all adjacent landowners notified at all sites. <br />5. State law requires that counties make a formal commitment <br />(34-32-117(e)) to reclaim sites in accordance with the recla- <br />mation standards outlined in the Rules and Regulations. <br />6. Remember, we must receive the Division of Wildlife and Soil <br />Conservation Service reports on an adequate substitute before <br />we can consider these applications adequate. It would seem that <br />the favorable weather trend would permit access to these sites <br />by these agencies or other qualified personnel. The SCS report <br />should also include seed mixes, maximum anticipated slope following <br />reclamation, seedbed preparation, etc. You may want to make sure <br />they address these. The November 24, 1980 letter to you from <br />the SCS does not indicate that this information will be provided <br />for all sites. <br />