ENFORCE36463

• Permit No: C1982056
• IBM Index Class Name: Enforcement
• Doc Date: 11/22/2006
• Doc Name: Memo -Request for Extension of Abatement Deadline Beyond 90-Days
• From: Dan Hernandez
• To: Ronald Cattany
• Violation No.: CV2006006
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 275
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
COLORADO
DIVISION OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
- &-
SAFETY
Date: November 22, 2006 Bill Owens
Gavemar
To: Ronald W. Cattany, Director Russell George
Executive Director
From: Daniel I. Hernandez ~ ~ ~-~' Ronald W. Cattany
Division Director
SenlOr E11V1rOrlTrlental PI'OteettOn SpeClallSt Natural Resource Trustee
RE: Request for Extension of Abatement Deadlines Beyond 90-Days
Twentymile Coal Company, The Foidel Creek Mine
Permit No. C-1982-056, Notice of Violation No. CV-2006-006
The Coal Program issued Notice of Violation No. CV-2006-006 to Twentymile Coal Company on
September 19, 2006. This NOV was issued for a spill of coal processing fines from the Foidel Creek
Mine into Foidel Creek and the mine's Sedimentation Pond E.
The NOV has three remaining abatement steps: Steps 9b, 10, and 11. Twentymile Coal Company has
requested extensions of the deadlines of these steps (letter attached). The new deadlines would be at
dates beyond 90 days from the September 19, 2006 NOV issuance date.
The deadline for NOV Abatement Step 9b, which requires the permittee to "remove coal fines
accumulation from north pond area and dispose of coal fines in existing coal refuse area", would be
extended from December 4, 2006 to January 31, 2007, so as to allow the coal fines to freeze and to
thereby improve their handling ability.
The deadline for NOV Abatement Step 10, which requires the permittee to "submit as-built (as-repaired)
construction drawings for the cleaned Sedimentation Pond E, with a demonstration of adequacy for
treatment of surface inflows (process flows and surface)", would be extended from December 11, 2006
to February 9, 2007.
The deadline for NOV Abatement Step 11, which requires the permittee to "report, in writing,
completion of the Foidel Creek clean-up to the Division, CDPHE-WQCD, CDOW, and USAGE",
would be extended from December 11, 2006 to Februazy 9, 2007.
The Coal Program finds that the Twentymile Coal Company request complies with the requirements of
Rule 5.03.2(2)(c)(iii) of the Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal
Mining (9/14/2005) regarding extensions of abatement deadlines for periods greater than 90 days from
the date of the issuance of a Notice of Violation. The Coal Program supports the permittee's request,
and requests your signature of the attached "Extension of Time for Abatement Notice" Form.
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