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STATE OF COLORADO Bill Owens, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DIVI~tON OF WILDLIFE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER Bruce McCloskey, Director 6060 Broadway Denver, Colorado 80216 Telephone: (303) 297-1192 January 07, 2005 Ms. Erica S. Crosby Bnvironmental Protection Specialist Division of Minerals and Geology 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, CO 80203 -_i :.Y JJ ,,.. ..:. .....~ ~. r.. .:~.n Re: King Mountain Gravel, LLC, Hewes Pit, Permit No. M-1978-314, Revision No. CN-1 Deaz Ms. Crosby: For TITddlife- ForPeople The following comments are based on Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW) field staff review of the proposed project that included document review and a site visit. in addition, data from the following materials was used to provide background and reference information for our comments on the proposed King Mountain Sand & Gravel Mine. Copies of these materials maybe obtained upon request. • CDOW Wildlife Resource Information System (WRIS) • Northern Eagle/Southern Routt Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation Plan • CDOWRcrdio-Collared Greater Sage-Grouse Study: 2003 -Present We would like to note that the Regular (112) Operation Reclamation Permit Application Form on the CD you provided for our review appeazed to be missing a portion of the application for King Mountain Sand and Gravel Mine prepazed by Banks and Gesso. Subsequently, we were only able to review the Introduction and Exhibit A. Exhibit B through Exhibit S were not included on the copy of the CD we received, nor were Attachments A-C. If you would like the CDOW to provide you with additional comments regazding those documents, please forwazd them at your eazliest convenience for our review. CDOW SUMMARY OF PROPOSED PROJECT: The existing gravel pit previously operated by Frank Hewes, now called King Mountain Sand & Gravel Mine is located in agricultural rangeland approximately 5 miles west of Toponas; CO. The property is located on the southwest portion of an azea locally referred to as Five Pines Mesa. The current pit is permitted for 10 acres, and has been part of an active mining operation. The petitioner is requesting that the pemut acreage be expanded from this inifial 10 acres to 341 acres. It is our understanding that the petitioner only intends to mine 184 of the 341 acres with no more than 67 acres being disturbed at any given time. The proposed mining operation will be to mine construction aggregates, and the petitioner is proposing to complete mining in foul separate phases over a 20-yeaz period. It is also our understanding that all proposed mining will be dry mining that will occur above the water table, dewatering will not be necessary, and the operation will include a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Russell George, Executive Direcor WILDLIFE COMMISSION, Philip James, Chair • Jeffrey Cravfiord, Vic~Chair • Brad Phelps, Secretary Members, Bernard Black • Tom Burke • Rick Enstrom • Claire O'Neal • Robert Shoemaker • Ken Torres Ex OFfido Members, Russell George and Don Ament