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<br />STATE OF iii iiiiiiiiiiiii iii <br />COLORP~DO <br />DIVISION OF M1tINERALS AND GEOLOGY <br />Depanmcm n( Natural Resources <br />131;Sherman SL, Room ?IS <br />Deneer, Colorado BU'_OJ D I v 15 l O N O F <br />Phone: (3071 856-3567 MINERAL 5 <br />=~•~:IJnJ aaz Jln~ & <br /> GEOLOGY <br /> RECLAMATION <br /> MINING•$A FE 7Y <br />Date: June 16, 2000 <br />/ Bil I Oaens <br />To: Dave Berry, Janet Binns, Sandy Brown, Byron Walker cnvcrnor <br /> Greg E Walther <br />\~, <br />~ &eculivc Dueemr <br />From: Dan Hernandez ~\ Michael B. Long <br /> Drvisian Duecb~ <br />Re: Follow-up to Today's Meeting with Jim Stover and Steve V iert, <br />North Thompson Creek Mines, DMG Permit No. C-81-025 <br />Thanks to each of you for sitting in at today's meeting. I think a lot of good ideas were discussed, <br />and it was encouraging to see folks wanting to help MINREC achieve bond release where possible. <br />For purposes of clarity, I'd like to document what decisions were made today, and what we agreed <br />to do next. I'd like your feedback as to whether you agree with the decisions made to this point, <br />and whether you agree that these were the steps we agreed to take next. Please ]et me know by next <br />Friday (6/23/00) if this is what you recall we've agreed to do. If we agreed to do anything else [hat <br />I haven't written noted here, please let me know that as well. <br />We agreed that certain surface disturbances at the North Thompson Creek Mines were in <br />existence on or before August 3, 1977 (based upon the aerial photographs provided by Jim <br />Stover). <br />We agreed that certain portions of the North Thompson Creek Mines were not in existence <br />until after August 3, 1977 (based again on Jim's photos). <br />We agreed that we can grant Phase II and Phase III bond release on the revegetated portions <br />of the mine site, load out and fan shaft site, assuming MINREC meets all agreed-upon <br />associated statutory, regulatory, and permit requirements. <br />4. We agreed that as we apparently have requests from landowners to leave the fan shaft road <br />and haul road unreclaimed, we could approve a Phase IUIII bond release for them. <br />We will decide amongst ourselves whether any of the surface disturbances at [he North <br />Thompson Creek Mines could fall under a definition of "previously mined areas", for the <br />purposes of being eligible for the revegetation standard provided by Rule 4.15. l0(1). <br />6. If we agree that some of the surface disturbances could be classified as "previously mined <br />areas", we will then decide whether all surface disturbances associated with the mine site <br />