1997-09-15_REVISION - M1981302

• Permit No: M1981302
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 9/15/1997
• Doc Name: RATIONALE FOR APPROVAL OF TR TR-06 WESTERN MOBILE BOULDER INC DEEPE FARM PIT PN M-81-302
• Type & Sequence: TR6
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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DIVISION of MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
1 epartment313 Sherman
n Natural Resources
1 313 Sherman 51., Room 215
Denver,Colorado 80203
Phone.[phone]
FAX.[phone]
DEPARTMENT OF
NATURAL
DATE: September 15, 1997 RESOURCES
Roy Romer
Governor
RE: Rationale for Approval of Technical Revision TR-06 lames S.Lochhead
Western Mobile Boulder, Inc., Deepe Farm Pit F.eK.zwe Director
Michael 8.Long
Permit No. M-81-302 Division Director
Introduction
A hearing was convened during the July 23, 1997 meeting of the Mined Land Reclamation
Board in order to determine whether the technical revision TR-06 application submitted for
the Deepe Farm Pit Permit on May 2, 1997 should be reviewed as an amendment, rather
than a technical revision. This hearing was requested by the City of Boulder, as an appeal
to the Division's decision that the permit modification proposed would be reviewed as a
technical revision. At the hearing, the Mined Land Reclamation Board determined that the
permit modification submitted on May 2, 1997 was a technical revision, not an amendment.
The Board ordered the Division to solicit comments from parties that may be interested in
the technical revision application, but to make a decision on the application within the
regulatory time frame for a technical revision. The Board further ordered the Division to
prepare a document describing the rationale for the Division's eventual decision on the
technical revision TR-06 application. This document is intended to execute the Board's
order in that regard.
Solicitation of Comments
In order to carry out the Board's direction to solicit and consider comments from interested
parties to the technical revision TR-06 application, the Division took the following steps:
1. The Division applied the public notice procedures to technical revision TR-06 that
would normally be applied to a new application for a Limited Impact (type 110)
Permit. These procedures were deemed appropriate,because the new Limited Impact
(type 110) Permit review and decision time frame of 30 days are the same as the
review and decision time frame for technical revisions. The public notice procedure
followed by the Division included a one-time publication in a newspaper in general
circulation in the area of the proposed activity. This newspaper was the Boulder
Daily Camera, and the publication of a notice soliciting comments on the technical
revision TR-06 application occurred on August 21, 1997. Interested parties were