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iii niiiiiiniu iii ~- year zo United States Department of the Interior ~ a ~ OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING~~ *',ac ~ +°~9 Reclamation and Enforcement ~ ~ IN REPLY REFER TO: Suite 1200 505 Marquette Avenue N.W. Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102 FEB 04 i~~ ~? c -,.~ CERTIFIED RETURN RECEIPT # P-293-286-813 ` "= ~ ~~~~; ~_; Mr. Stephen Renner FCB 8 ;c~~, Coal Program Supervisor ~-;•._,,. Division of Minerals and Geology Department of Natural Resources -` ~"'~ 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, CO 80203 Re: Division of Minerals and Geology (DMG) Response to Ten-Day Notice (TDN) X93-020-370-005, TV 3, Golden Eagle Mine, C-81-013 Dear Mr. Renner: The Albuquerque Field Office (AFO) received the above referenced response on December 27, 1993. AFO requested copies of the documentation the Division of Minerals and Geology (DMG) referenced in its response. The documents were received on January 19 and 21, 1994. This TDN was issued as a result of a citizens complaint submitted by Mr. Jim Tatum. Mr. Tatum owns part of the property under which the Golden Eagle Mine has been developed. TDN 93-020-370-005, violation 1 of 3, was issued for failure to properly conduct a subsidence survey, subsidence monitoring, and a subsidence control plan. AFO understands the DMG response to state that an inventory was conducted; the response contained part of a map showing Mr. Tatum's buildings. Map 16, titled "Structure Inventory," is also a part of the approved permit which shows location and describes the structure. Figure 1, a map titled "Water User Survey," accompanied the response and depicts the location of Mr. Tatum's windmill. AFO further understands the DMG response to state that subsidence monitoring was conducted on those alluvial valley floor lands (AVF) that were undermined. While this monitoring was initially planned to include the First North Main that would have undermined the Tatum property, monitoring points were established over the Third North Main instead since the First North Main became inactive. The maps submitted with the DMG response show that mining has not occurred under Mr. Tatum's buildings. The maps represent that the room and pillar mining stopped about 350 feet from Mr. Tatum's adobe house. DMG states that mining of the First North Main ceased in 1988.