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PART I <br />Page 3 <br />Permit No. COR-040000 = <br />PARTI <br />A. COVERAGE UNDER THIS PERMiT <br />1. Authority to Discharne <br />Under this permit, active and inactive metal mining operations where atormwater has come into contact with any <br />overburden, raw material, intermediate Iunducts, byproducts, finished products or waste products located at the mining <br />site are permitted to discharge stormwaG:r associated with mining operation into waters of the state of Colorado. The <br />term mining operation includes active and inactive mining activities. <br />2. Industries Covered Under this Permit <br />This permit is intended to authotve most new or existing discharges composed entirely of stormwater from metal mining <br />operations that are required by Federal regulation to obtain a permit. The term 'metal" is used to distinguish this permit <br />from the coal mining and the sand and gravel mining general stormwater permits. <br />a. Definitions <br />1) Stotmwater is precipitation-induced surface runoff. <br />2) Mining operations include facilities classified as Standard Industrial Classification Codes 10 through 14 <br />(mineral industry), including active or inactive mining activities. This definition includes operations that <br />have temporarily ceased mining end are in 'temporary cessation' status with the Colorado Division of <br />Minerals and Geology. <br />3) Irtactive mining operations are mining sites that are not being actively mined, <br />Other Definitions can be fond in part I.D. of this permit. <br />b. Types of Activities Covered by this Permit: <br />1) This permit authorizes all new and existing discharges composed entirely of stormwater associated with <br />active and inactive metal training operations, (See Rationale, Section III for an explanation of exemptions <br />for uncontaminated stormwater and reclaimed mines) <br />2) This permit may also temporarily authorve existing discharges composed entirely of stormwater from any <br />_ .._ mining operation that is currently covered by an individual CDPS permit for discharge of process water. <br />3. Aoralication. Due Dates <br />a. Application Due Dates: At leapt Chitty days prior to the anticipated date of discharge, or by October 1, 1992, <br />whichever is later, the owner (or operator when the owner does not operate the facility) of the facility shall submit <br />m application provided by the Division. <br />The completed discharge application shall be submitted to: <br />Colorado Department of 13ealth <br />Water Qttality Control Division <br />4210 East 11th Avenue <br />Denver, Colorado 80220 <br />Attention: Permits and Enforcement Section <br />