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iii iiiiiiiiniu iii ,, STATE OF ~~ COLORADO DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY ~ Depanmenl of Natural Resources ~ 1 31 J Sherman SI.. Room '_1 5 ~ Dcnver, Colorado 80?OJ ~ Phone: U0J1 866-7567 fAX:l30JI 8368106 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES July 31, 1997 Roy Romer Governor lames S. Lochhead Mr. Angus Campbell r,KUii°° D're<'or CDPHE-HMWMD Michael B. Long Division Director 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South Denver, CO 80222 RE: Review: Superfund Preliminary Site Closeout Report, Smuggler Mountain Superfund Site, Pitkin County, Aspen, Colorado The Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Division of Minerals and Geology (DMG) regulates all mining activities within the state of Colorado. DMG is authorized under Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Act, C.R.S. 34-32-101 et seg., and serves as the technical arm of the Mined Land Reclamation Boazd. The DMG has been asked by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division, to review the above captioned report, and to evaluate the remedy selection for OU-2. with regazd to the Mined Land Reclamation Act (the Act). The captioned report names some of the key documents that were developed en route to site closeout. The report is thus fairly generic as most of each reports' details aze not discussed. Operable Unit 2 (OU-2) is identical in azea to the active mine currently permitted by the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Boazd, Permit Number M-95-097, which was issued to Wright & Preusch Mining Ltd on January 17, 1997. OU-2 is the only azea for which the Division of Minerals and Geology has oversight authority. The closeout report indicates that certain ongoing activities permitted under the Administrative Order on Consent for Removal Action (AOC) aze also included in the Colorado Mining and Reclamation Permit (the MLRB Permit). The MLRB Permit acknowledge in the permit narrative that the AOC does exist. It is not evident that obligations in the State Mining Permit are the same as in the AOC because the AOC was not reviewed for [his letter. The remedy selection for OU-2, as indicated in the Closeout Report, is that the operator will follow the reclamation plan developed under the MLRB Permit.