ENFORCE31998

• Permit No: C1980001
• IBM Index Class Name: Enforcement
• Doc Date: 9/22/1993
• Doc Name: Draft MINUTES to Sept Board MEETING
• Violation No.: CV1993026
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

DRAFT
Minutes, September 22-23, 1993 Subject To Board Approval 42
20. FORMAL PUBLIC HEARING
PITTSBURG & MIDWAY COAL MINING COMPANY File No.C-80-001
Edna Strip Mine
P. O. Box 176
Oak Creek, CO 80467
All persons wishing to give testimony were sworn.
Secs. 19, 20, 30 and 31, TSN, R85W; Sec. 36, T5N, R86W; Secs.
12-14 and 23-25, T4N, R86W and Secs.7-8, 17-19 and 30, T4N,
RBSW, 6th P.M., Rout t. County, 4,360 acres; surface Federal
coal mine. Consideration of a request to vacate NOV C-93-026
issued for failure to design, control and maintain sediment
control structures to provide protection for topsoil and
vegetation and failure to retain sediment within the disturbed
area (continued from the August 1993 Board Meeting).
Staff distributed EXHIBIT A, a package of information,
including copies of the NOV package, an inspection report,
maps, pictures and the operator June 30, 1993 request for
formal review. Staff said this matter related to the
operator's request that the Board vacate NOV C-93-026.
Staff said the Division inspected the site during the March 30
through April 1, 1993 inspection period. Staff referenced
Rules 4.05.5(1)(c) and 4.05.5(2)(c) and said this NOV was
written for failure to design, construct and maintain sediment
control measures to minimize erosion, as necessary, to provide
protection for topsoil and vegetation and for failure to
retain sedimenC within disturbed areas. Staff said the intent
of the Regulation is to minimize offsite impacts using the
best technology currently available to provide protection for
topsoil and vegetation.
Staff said the NOV applied to the Grizzly Pad facilities area,
the east side of the upper facilities area and the outlet of
Culvert E-12. Staff said that an assessment conference was
held and that the conveyor belt was modified out of the NOV
during that meeting.
Staff referenced the Exhibit A and discussed the Grizzly Pad
which measures about 300 feet by 400 feet of gravel and dirt
surfacing. Staff said the area contains coal screens and a
small coal stockpile, and is surrounded on three sides by
reclaimed land. Staff said that drainage on the Grizzly Pad
is usually controlled by a system of a berm and a ditch that
route drainage back to the haul road, the entrance of the Pad
and to the west ridge pond.