ENFORCE34846

• Permit No: C1980006
• IBM Index Class Name: Enforcement
• Doc Date: 9/9/1994
• Doc Name: MEMO OSMRE RECLAMATION PLAN VOLUMETRICS SUMMER-FALL 1993
• From: DMG
• To: KERR COAL CO FN C-80-006
• Violation No.: TD1994020352002TV1
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

I t ~.
III IIIIIIIIIIIII III
STATE OF COLv~~nvv
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Departmem of Nawral Resources.
1313 Sherman Sl.. Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: 130:3) 032-8106
Memo
To:
From:
Date:
Re:
Marr Strip, Kerr al o. File (C-80-006) ~'r"A'" ~ 13.
Voiun:etries, Summer-Falll993
Randy Price
September 9, 1994
OSMRE Reclamation Plan
~-
U
pl
DEPAR7'MEN7' OI
NATURAL
RESOURCE;
Roy Romer
Governor
lames S. Lochhead
Eaecmive Director
Michael B. Long
Division Director
This memo is to document, to the best of my recollections, my corrlmunications and activities related
to OSMRE's volumetric calculations and reclamation liability estimates performed by Robert Inman of
the OSMRE.
Mr. Inman contacted me sometime after the oversight inspection. I believe that Mr. Inman first called
David Berry and David told me to return the call. I contacted Mr. Inman and we set up a time in
which he could come over to the Division Office to review files.
Mr. Inman and I met at the Division office; he said that he had been asked by the Alburqueque office
to look at the backfilling and grading volumes and calculate the reclamation liability. We discussed
what information that he would need. I gave him a copy of the Division's bonding calculations that
the Division had completed earlier that year. We also discussed swell factors, coal quantities mined
and the overburden stockpile. I gave him the telephone number of the mine operator and of Jerry
Nettleton of Terra Matrix.
We had set a date to meet at the mine but later something came up and I had to cancel. Later, during
my monthly inspection, I learned that he been to the mine and met with the operator and Jerry
Nettleton. I don't think that I communicated with Mr. Inman after he had been to the mine. He had
told me that he was retiring soon and since I did not hear from him I figured that he had already left.
Some time later, possibly in July or August, Henry Austin called me concerning the volume
calculation that Mr. Inman had conducted. Mr. Austin said that Mr. Inman's calculations for
backfilling volumes were different from those supplied by the mine. He gave me some volume
numbers and said that there was a deficit of fill in the material balance. None of the numbers were
significant; there was less than.a 5% discrepancy between the mines calculations an those of Mr.
Irunan. I was not concerned and I told Mr. Austin that I could not make any judgments on the