ENFORCE21473

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: Enforcement
• Doc Name: EXHIBIT A to Exhibt L
• Violation No.: CV1993112
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

UM4dsNaa F°mt Paonia Ran er Otstrict P. 0. Box 1030
D•aae,+«uoi 5•mu 9 Paonia, Colorado 81428
~pnaddo - [phone]
n,q n: 2920
=... December 21, 198a
r
4
Office of Surface Mining
ATTN: Richard Holbrook
Brooks Tower
lOZO 15th Street
Denver, CO 802D2
Re; Application to Revise..the Mining and Reclamation Plan for the
Mt. Gunnison Na. 1 Underground Mine.
Dear Mr. Holbrook;
Attached is d copy of our,Auqust 9, 1984, memo regarding stipulations we
recommended for West Elk Coal Company's subsidence monitoring network.
We have noted in the proposed revision a provision which was not covered
in West Elk's initial proposal to us. This provision calls for 4 ft. by
4 ft. white plywood targets to 6e placed over each monitoring station.
My estimate is that approximately 90 of these will be needed. We are
concerned with visual impacts of this added use; but since we are unable
to address these impacts on the ground during winter months, it is
di}ficuit to judge how significant they are. [have discussed these
concerns with Rocky Bowman of ARCO, and we have agreed to submit Lhe
following recommandatian:
A. Investigate visual impacts in the spring of 1985.
A. 1. If visual impacts are judged by the forest Service to be
insignificant, nothing lurther will be required.
A. 2. If visual impaet9 are fudged by the Forest Service to be
significant, a stipulation will be added to the permit
requiring that the panels be turned so that the neutral,,;
(brown) color faces up during non-snow covered Deriods
(from June - October 15) except during specific times ~
when subsidence measurements are being made,
We would also recommend that the fallowing Stipulation be added:
Atl subsidence markers and panels will be removed at the conclusion of
the project. Tentative plans call for this to occur in 1989; therefore
n-•soa„pam