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~ iii iiiiiiiiiiiii iii ~ <br />STATE OF <br />RA_ DO <br />DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY <br />Deparimenloi NaW ral Resources <br /> <br /> <br />131 3 Sherman 51., Roorn 21 S - <br />~^°.rb <br />Ac <br />O <br />O ~' <br />• <br />~ <br />Denver, IX1 RO l03 • <br />~ <br />Phone:130 ;796b-1567 ~re~a <br />F Ax: 13031 83!-K 1116 <br />Huy Romer <br /> Goecrnm <br /> Michael B. Lund; <br />DATE: August 4, 1993 Dwision D~reaur <br />T0: Larry Oehler <br /> <br />FROM: Harry Posey <br />RE: Proposed revisions o the MOU and Contract between BMRI, RCG- <br />Hagler/Bailly and DMG over Third Party Monitoring <br />The attached memo from Alana Scott depicts the state of affairs of t~e third-party <br />monitoring program fairly accurately and proposes a solution to the problem. <br />Basically BMRI's proposal is as follows: <br />i. Receive and review all of the outstanding sampling reports '(reports 3 and <br />4). <br />2. Eliminate sampling trips 5 and 6 out of the total of 7 proposed <br />samplings. <br />3. Evaluate the third party monitoring program in October. <br />I support this proposal in principle, but suggest that provided dis repancies are <br />found in the duplicate sampling or in the monitoring overall, the progr be continued <br />until discrepancies have been ironed out. <br />i <br />Ann Maeet has informed me that there are discrepancies in the analytica( reports that <br />need to be addressed. I have no doubt that this is true, but am not ctain we need <br />a third party monitor to evaluate the problems. Virtually every lab d researcher <br />with whom I have worked and spoken acknowledge that there are problem with cyanide <br />analytical chemistry. Even the EPA is having trouble getting reliabl results. <br />I propose that the third party monitoring program be placed on hold 4~til I return <br />to the office after August 30. At the time the DMG and BMRI should ha~+e had time to <br />study the two outstanding reports and can decide how to pursue BMRI's p posal. Until <br />seeing the two outstanding reports it will be difficult to make an informed assessment <br />of the situation. <br />cc: Mike Long <br />Bruce Humphries <br />Jim Pendleton <br />Jim Stevens <br />Alana Scott, BMRI <br />Ann Maest, RCG-HBI <br />m:min\hhp\oehler.mem <br />