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&V <br />III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII <br />sss <br />Cripple Creek And victor Gold Mining Company <br />A Joint Venture -Pikes Peak Mining Company, Manager <br />Operations Office <br />P.O. Box 191, 2755 State Highway 67 <br />Victor, CO 80860 <br />(719) 689-2977 • FAX (719) 689-3254 <br />May 15, 1996 <br />r~~r,~ivED <br />MAY ~ 7 1~3~ <br />Englewood OfficeDIVISIOn Ot MIf18fa15 & GtlblU~y <br />P.O. Box 5078, 5251 DTC Parkway, Suite 700 <br />Englewood, CO 80155 <br />(303) 889-0700 • FAX (303) 889-0707 <br />SENT BY FACSIMILE AND CERTIFIED RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED <br />Mr. Berhan Keffelew <br />Environmental Protection Specialist <br />Colorado Department of Natural Resources <br />Division of Mines and Geology <br />Office of Mined Land Reclamation <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Attn: Mr. Jim Stevens <br />Reference: Cresson Project: Permit M-80-244: Procedures and Materials For 1996 <br />Construction. Removal Of Drain Cover Fill Thickness From Technical Revision. <br />Dear Mr. Keffelew: <br />The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company appreciates the efforts the Office of Mined <br />Land Reclamation has made to examine feasible alternatives for satisfying concerns that have <br />arisen regarding the placement of Drain Cover Fill material in 1996 under the Technical <br />Revision CC&V submitted in January. We especially appreciate yours and Dr. Pendleton's <br />recent work to clarify and to focus the concern on the perceived risk of lowering a dozer blade <br />beneath the specified thickness of Drain Cover Fill and thereby encountering the synthetic liner. <br />CC&V wishes to provide the following description of its proposed Drain Cover Fill placement <br />techniques that would be employed for placement at the two-foot thickness in 1996 in order to <br />demonstrate how it has reduced the risk of a lowering of the blade of mechanized equipment <br />placing Drain Cover Fill below the approved thickness of two feet. <br />The primary and, therefore, superseding Technical Specification for placement of Drain Cover <br />Fill, which is Cresson Mine ore, in 1996, is to achieve and maintain a thickness of 24 inches <br />(2 feet) at all times. The following paragraphs outline and summarize the procedures that will <br />ensure the 2-foot cover CC&V proposes to place in 1996 in the Phase II area of the Cresson <br />Valley Leach Facility meets all design criteria and, particularly, that the same, if not improved, <br />protection will be afforded the synthetic and clay liner system that underlays the Drain Cover <br />Fill ("DCF"). <br /> <br />