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:. -; III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII STATE OF COL,v>~~.~ f~11NED LAND RECLAh1ATION DIVISION Deoarment of Natural Resources t 3 i? Sherman St.. Room 2t 5 Gtn:-~:. CO 80203 ?03 cEE 356i FA~< 3C3 632~Bt06 October 11 , 1990 Mr. Robert Hagen Office of Surface Mining Albuquerque Field Office 025 Silver Avenue, S.W., Suite 31U Albuquerque, New hiexi co 137102 RE: Ten-Day Notice Number X-90-02-107-13 TV1 Dear htr. Hagen: ~`^`O^.o 2~~.r!4 :l: `-' ~. :. ~. ~-" ~ l g i e Fay Romer. Governor Retl R. Banta Division Dneaor This letter is written in response to Ten-Day Notice X-90-02-107-13 TY1 issued to the Hayden Gulch Mine and receives at our office on October 3, 1990. The notice was issued for failure to maintain access roans to have adequate drainage using structures such as, but not limited to,........culverts. Although no section of the Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining was cited in the Notice, it is assumed that Rule 4.03.2(4) and/or 4.03.2 were the regulations believed to be applicable. On September 27, 1990, during the course of a complete inspection at the Hayden Gulch Mine (C-80-003), a culvert under the access road to the shop/warehouse area was discovered to be almost completely clogged at the outlet end, and for some distance into the culvert. The inlet end was clear. Since the culvert was outside of the entrance to the mine and adjacent to the county road and provides drainage for the ditch alongside the county road, it was not clear whose responsibility it was to maintain the culvert. Upon examining the permit application and records at the loadout, it .vas still not clear who had the responsibility to maintain the culvert. After returning to the office, contact was made with the Routt County Road and Bridge Department in an attempt to clarify who installed the culvert and who nod the responsiuility to maintain it. The county's response was that it was the private party's responsibility to install and Raintain the culvert for a private property access oft of a county road. However, it was their policy to provide Raintenance in the event that a culvert became Clogged to the point where it tnay endanger the road.