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999 <br /> 1 JF COLORADO <br /> DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY <br /> Departmentof <br /> Depar <br /> tment of Natural Rcsuun es <br /> I tI 1 Sherman,( Room 215 <br /> Denver, Colorado 80203 I I <br /> Phone.l 5041}ihh-li(ri <br /> FAX:(303)H R-NI Ot, <br /> DEPARTMENT OF <br /> NATURAL <br /> DATE: September 15, 1997 RESOURCES <br /> Roy Romer <br /> Grnemn,r <br /> RE: Rationale for Approval of Technical Revision TR-06 lames S.Lochhead <br /> Western Mobile Boulder, Inc., Deepe Farm Pit E,ecutwe Director <br /> Michael B Lom <br /> Permit No. M-81-302 Division D woor <br /> Introduction <br /> A hearing was convened during the July 23, 1997 meeting of the Mined Land Reclamation <br /> Board in order to determine whether the technical revision TR-06 application submitted for <br /> the Deepe Farm Pit Permit on May 2, 1997 should be reviewed as an amendment, rather <br /> than a technical revision. This hearing was requested by the City of Boulder, as an appeal <br /> to the Division's decision that the permit modification proposed would be reviewed as a <br /> technical revision. At the hearing, the Mined Land Reclamation Board determined that the <br /> permit modification submitted on May 2, 1997 was a technical revision, not an amendment. <br /> The Board ordered the Division to solicit comments from parties that may be interested in <br /> the technical revision application, but to make a decision on the application within the <br /> regulatory time frame for a technical revision. The Board further ordered the Division to <br /> prepare a document describing the rationale for the Division's eventual decision on the <br /> technical revision TR-06 application. This document is intended to execute the Board's <br /> order in that regard. <br /> Solicitation of Comments <br /> In order to carry out the Board's direction to solicit and consider comments from interested <br /> parties to the technical revision TR-06 application, the Division took the following steps: <br /> 1. The Division applied the public notice procedures to technical revision TR-06 that <br /> would normally be applied to a new application for a Limited Impact (type 110) <br /> Permit. These procedures were deemed appropriate, because the new Limited Impact <br /> (type 110) Permit review and decision time frame of 30 days are the same as the <br /> review and decision time frame for technical revisions. The public notice procedure <br /> followed by the Division included a one-time publication in a newspaper in general <br /> circulation in the area of the proposed activity. This newspaper was the Boulder <br /> Daily Camera, and the publication of a notice soliciting comments on the technical <br /> revision TR-06 application occurred on August 21, 1997. Interested parties were <br />