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Problem 1 : The layout of the original 3 acres or effected area was <br />not properly planned. Not knowing the tremendous run off from the <br />spring snow melt, we feel we should have planned 3 holding ponds to <br />catch the sedement and slims in the run off, instead of two ponds. <br />One of our admendments to our original plan is to build a third pond <br />in the near future. To do this we need to extend our effective area. <br />Our present ponds, creek bed and road leading to the mine site take <br />up 75% of our effective area at this time, leaving us only 25% of the 3 <br />acres to produce gold from. Our 110(2) permit allows for 70,000 ton <br />annually has been unrealistic and unpracticional for the 14 seasons <br />we have operated on this project site. <br />On July 14, 1992, W. York-Fern and I, stepped off the effected area <br />to be 3 acres before the mining was started. We believed we were <br />right when the comer posts were set. We didn't have a GPS so we <br />still believe we are right. All though there was a canyon <br />approximately 275 feet wide that we could not step off. When we <br />were told that the GPS is not a legal measurement we still have to <br />believe we are correct. But to keep peace in the valley we are willing <br />to work with M and G and correct any problems. The .8 of the acre <br />over our 3 acre permit would be a area approximately 215 feet by <br />160 feet is the issue. We are asking the department to let us extend <br />our effective area approximately 2 acres on the north east end of the <br />project site. This area is a predisturbed area. A map would <br />accompany this change so that it would be clear for the plan. We <br />believe this would be fair to us because most of the original was <br />predisturbed as Mr. Your-Fern slats in his report. 'There is a <br />significant disturbance in and around the property. The previous <br />placer mining operation produced 3-4 acres of disturbance. A portion <br />of the current permit application over laps the revoked site, includes <br />a breached sedementation pond. " Mr. York-Fem also states "At the <br />pre-operation inspection Mr. Van Ella is concerned that the amount <br />of previous distrubance on the property be documented so that his <br />proposed disturbance can be distingushed from the old <br />disturbance." <br />