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ii iiuiiiiiiiii iii STATE OF COLUt~L~U DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY • Drpanmenl of Nalu ral Resources I f l 4 Shcrm•m 51., Ronm ! I S Denerr, G duradn 80!0 i Phony 130 4 86h- f i67 FA%:11041 ri3 _'81116 16 October 1997 Phil Jensen PO Box 616 Meeker, CO 8164 Re: Phase ll/III Bond Release Request (Number SL-03), Enron Coal Company, Meeker Area Mines, Permit No. C-81-032 Deaz Mr. Jensen: ~~~ DEPARTMENT OE NATURAL RESOURCES Roy Rumer Gus ernor lames 5 En~hheud E~rcwive Director Mic hail B long Division Director First, thank you for your hospitality during the site inspection conducted on 14 August 1997. Issues you raised during the inspection were unreclaimed exploration roads and weeds. Weeds were also the subject of your letters of September 8 and September 12, 1997. We have conducted a comprehensive review with regazd to the bond under consideration for Phase II/III • release (Bond Number JP-0942, $184,071.00) associated with reclamation activities df Enron Coal Company at the Northern #1 Mine, Permit Number C-81-032). The Permit and bond seem to apply only to the mining activities at the mine, not exploration activities, and the bond amount retained applies only to reclamation of the disturbed azeas to revegetation standazds. A summary of references concerning roads is at Enclosure 1. All references to roads and their reclamation (or retention as permanent features) apply to the haul roads associated with the mine portals, support azeas, and the development waste azea. No objections were found in the files to the Phase I (backfilling and grading, circa 1987) portion of the bond release process. If you recall filing an objection at that time, please provide me with a copy. Such a filing would have likely been in response to a Mined Land Reclamation Division letter of September 15, 1987, Re: Bond Release Request, Meeker Area Mines C-81-032. [n summary, the permit (C-81-032) files and the bond held by the Division of Minerals and Geology (Division) do not seem to address the roads other than the haul roads (which have been approved to remain as permanent features) As exploration roads (and their reclamation) would most likely be a subject within the Division's "Notice of Intent" permitting process for coal exploration activities, these records too were checked. The Division still holds a reclamation bond in the amount of $25,000.00 for exploration activities conducted on your properties as well as other properties. Within this file • was found a statement of yours, dated May 11, 1981, that "... the reclamation work done on the ~/6 .~