REV12925

• Permit No: C1981029
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 9/8/1995
• Doc Name: MEADOWS 1 MINE PHASE III BOND RELEASE APPLICATION
• Type & Sequence: SL4
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Description of the Bond Release Amount Reauest• In July 1994, CDMG required
Sun Coal Company to submit Technical Revision 15, clarifying the disposition of
certain structures and materials at the former facilities and tipple area of the mine.
Based on contacts with the landowner, Mr. John Eilts over the years, it was Sun Coal
Company's understanding that the existing structures and materials at the facilities and
tipple areas were to remain intact for the landowner's use. The following were to be
left in place: the office trailer, truck scales and scale house, two water wells and well
houses, transformers, weather station, Yampa River bridge, conveyor gallery, coal
recovery tunnel, crusher pit and shed, shop buildings and storage tanks, and the north
access road from Highway 40 to the shop area. It was determined that the office
trailer, Yampa River bridge, shop buildings, and truck scale and scale house were
previously agreed to be left in place per a 1983 district court settlement agreement.
On November 16, 1994, the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board held a hearing,
requested by Sun Coal Company, to determine the fate of the above remaining
structures, based on sworn testimony by the landowner, Mr. John Eilts. At that
hearing, under oath, Mr. Eilts identified the structures which he wished to remain.
The structures to remain from those present at the facilities and tipple areas included:
1) the guard shack
2) the permit area entrance gate
3) the conveyor gallery
4) the coal recovery tunnel
5) the coal recovery shack
6) the two water wells
7) the well house
8) any fuel tanks
9) all power lines, poles, and remaining transformers
10) the gravel yard material at the shop
11) the access road from U.S. 40
The structures which were to be removed or demolished and reclaimed at the facilities
and tipple area included and were limited to the following:
1) the weather station
2) the ventilation fan at the coal recovery tunnel
3) the crusher pit and shed
4) the concrete portion of the coal recovery tunnel
5) the gravel fill associated with the tipple area
Sun Coal Company and Mr. Eilts continued discussing the disposition of the five (5)
structures and facilities above, the Yampa sediment pond, and the facilities area in
general. In August 1995 Mr. Eilts agreed to retain all facilities and structures at the
facilities azea (both north and south of the Yampa River) on his property. Mr. Eilts
contends that the remaining structures will be inwrporated into the ongoing land uses
of this azea. Mr. Eilts wishes were conveyed to the Division and the Colorado Mined
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