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,~ <br />UNITED COMPANIES OF MESA COUNTY <br />RAILHEAD PIT <br />(M-1995-036) <br />TECHNICAL REVISION #1 <br />This Technical Revision proposes to address two problems cited in a Division of <br />Minerals and Geology Inspection Report issued by Environmental Protection Specialist <br />Steve Shuey on Apri130, 2002. <br />The first problem cited, <br />1. It appears that there may be a shortage of on-site overburden material to <br />complete backfilling. <br />Last year, United Companies notified the division (in accordance with the <br />requirements of Rule 3.1.5(9), May 23, 2001) that we were intending to place inert <br />material as backfill at this site. United Companies expects that we will be using inert <br />material in this manner for quite some time into the future. <br />At this time United Companies requests that this practice become an approved part of <br />the Mining Plan for the site. All material that is placed is inert as defined by Rule <br />1.1(20). Typically the material placed as backfill is excess soil that has been <br />excavated at construction sites. United Companies does much of the placement of this <br />material at this site, as part of our construction activity. In addition, we allow some of <br />our customers to place backfill material as a service to them. <br />Gravel reserves remain to be extracted at this site. A triangular area of land at the <br />western end of the permit remains to be mined. Within the main pit gravel, an un- <br />mined reserve remains in place near the western end of the pit. <br />United Companies proposes that importing inert fill material to this site does not <br />affect the approved post mining land use of the property. <br />The second problem cited, <br />2. There is an un-permitted pile of old asphalt and a pile of broken concrete on site <br />that are to be processed and stockpiled as a product for sale. <br />At this time United Companies proposes that recycling of asphalt paving material and <br />concrete be approved as part of the Mining Plan at this site. Both materials are inert <br />materials as defined by Rule 1.1(20). <br />