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PCPC <br />Re:SUP2002-005 <br />6/11 /2002 <br />Page 4 <br />7. Special Use Permit No. 609 shall be placed on a complaint basis only. <br />Staff note: The Exhibits mentioned in Condition Nos. 5 and 6 are included in this staff <br />review as Exhibits 5a and 5b. <br />Special Use Permit No. 609 was initially issued to Cortner Feed Lot, Inc. with Beltramo and <br />Sons, Inc. as the operator. Minnequa Bank of Pueblo acquired the Cortner Feed Lot property, <br />and conveyed a portion of it to John Sliman and Butch Southway, dba JBCO, on April 30, 1996. <br />All permits associated with Cortner Pit #2 were transferred to JBCO, including Air Pollution <br />Emission Permit No. 86P6577, MLRB 112 Permit No. M-86-159, and Stormwater Discharge <br />Permit COG 500604. According to the Pueblo County Assessor records, Minnequa Bank <br />conveyed the remainder of the Cortner property, including portions of Cortner Pit #2, to Joe and <br />Joy Scalese, in_1995. Western Mobile Southern, Inc., a subsidiary of LaFarge Corporation, <br />acquired Cortner Pit #2 erid th'e associated permits in-1998, and has since submitted to this <br />Department copies of the Annual Reports for the MLRB permit. <br />To clarify the legal description and ownership of the property associated with Special Use <br />Permit Nos. 609 and 2002-005, this department requested the current applicant obtain an <br />agreement from the Scaleses to amend the legal description. A letter from Mr. Joe Scalese, in <br />which he agrees to amendment of the legal description, and to delete his property from the <br />Special Use Permit, is attached as Exhibit 6. <br />MINING OPERATION PLAN <br />The existing Cortner Pit #2 operation is a dry mine operation, with a processing plant onsite. <br />Total disturbed acreage, including roads and stockpile sites, is estimated at 68 acres. Front- <br />end loaders, dozers, or scrapers are used to strip and stockpile topsoil on pit perimeters for <br />replacement in reclamation. Aggregate is mined by front-end loaders, and transported by the <br />loaders or conveyor belts to the processing plant. Overburden material is limited, and is of <br />quality to be used in base course, so overburden piles are not anticipated. The applicant's <br />mining plan (Exhibit 4) with the exception of the proposed land swap for Phase IV, is consistent <br />with the plan proposed for Special Use Permit No. 609. The initial operation plan indicated a <br />mine life of 25 years, with an additional three years to complete reclamation, ending in 2022. <br />Given overall market demand and outside sales, the current applicant expects the operation to <br />last~one year, with three to-four-years for reclamation efforts. <br />The operation will not affect groundwater quality on and off the site. The operation will generally <br />require one shift with a maximum number of 10 employees. Two shifts may be employed <br />occasionally during busy periods of summer and fall construction. On-site speed limits wilt be <br />used to control fugitive dust emissions, and city water will be used for dust control operations <br />along the roads and stockpiles. Noise levels from the operation will fall within requirements for <br />industrial zoning. <br />RECLAMATION PLAN <br />The entire pit area will be reclaimed as rangeland. After mining, a level pit floor will daylight to <br />existing contours on the north and west perimeters, whale the south and part of the east <br />perimeters will be back sloped at 3H:1V. Topsoil will be applied to the pit floor and back slopes, <br />and be revegetated with a seed mixture capable of regeneration without continued dependence <br />