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III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII <br />999 <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br />DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman 51., Room 215 y` <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 l <br />r <br />Phone: (303) 866-3567 I <br />Il <br />FAX: (303)832-8106 <br /> DEPARTMENT OF <br /> ' NATURAL <br /> RESOURCES <br /> Roy Romer <br />DATE: March 6, 1997 Governor <br /> lames 5. lochhead <br /> Executive Director <br />TO: Mike Long Michael B. Long <br /> Division Director <br />FROM: Erica Crosby <br />Larry Routten <br />RE: Seneca [I-W Mine (C-82-057) <br />NOV C-95-023 <br />Extension of Abatement Deadline Beyond 90 Days <br />Please find attached, Seneca Coal Company's request to extend the abatement deadline beyond <br />90 days for NOV C-95-023. The violation was issued October 16, 1995. The first 90 day period <br />ended January 14, 1996. The violation abatement due date was first extended to April 13, 1996, <br />then to July 12, 1996 again to October 10, 1996, again to December 9, 1996 and finally to March <br />9, 1997. Abatement requirements for the violation included submittal of a technical revision <br />(TR), and field implementation of the designs approved in the TR following final approval by <br />DMG. The revision was approved on August 26, 1996. Seneca has initiated work on the <br />abatement plan by removing topsoil over the azea which needs to be regraded. Seneca still needs <br />to reduce the slope back to a 3:1, replace the topsoil and revegetate the redisturbed acreage. <br />Some additional drainage work is also required. Because of the weather and ground conditions <br />at the site, the work is not complete. <br />Rule 5.03.2(2)(c) list five circumstances which may qualify a surface coal mine for extension of <br />the abatement of deadline beyond 90 days. The technical revision addressing the new reclamation <br />plan was issued in the middle of September. Weather and ground conditions have also delayed <br />reclamation of this area. I recommend approval of the abatement dateline to June 7, 1997. <br />Enclosure <br />c:\wp51 \seneca\970306 <br />