GENERAL33484

• Permit No: C1981037
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 10/13/1993
• Doc Name: DRAFT MLRB ORDER CORLEY CO GEC MINERALS STRIP MINE REVOKED PN C-81-037
• From: DMG
• To: CORLEY CO
• Permit Index Doc Type: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
MINED LAND RECLAMATION BOARD
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DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES s.`.; ~C~ ~'
IN THE MATTER OF: Landowner's Request for ~~,~`~~~ BOARD
Reclamation Schedule, ~`~~1 ORDER
The GEC Strip Mine
Revoked Permit No. C-81-037
T0: The Corley Company and all other persons engaged in or owning
or controlling the property upon which lies the former GEC Strip
coal' mining operation located in portions of Sections 24 and 25,
Township 20 South, Range 70 West, and portions of Sections 19 and
30, Township 20 South, Range 69 West, of the 6th P.M., in Fremont
County, Colorado.
FINDINGS OF FACT
Pursuant to the authority vested in the State of Colorado Mined
Land Reclamation Board by C.R.S. 34-33-101 et. seq., the Board
hereby makes the following findings of fact:
1. On August 25-26, 1993, the Board held a Formal Public
Hearing to consider a petition from Dr. W.D. Corley, Jr. and
the Corley Company ("Corley") for the establishment of a
schedule of the activities associated with the reclamation
of the GEC Minerals, Inc. GEC Strip Mine, Revoked Permit No.
C-81-037.
2. Corley presented evidence and/or testimony at the Formal
Hearing that:
a. Corley was the lessee of the property upon which GEC
Minerals, Inc. operated the GEC Strip Mine from 1975 to
1983;
b. The Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division ("the
Division") permit issued to GEC Minerals was
subsequently revoked, and the associated performance
bond forfeited in 1987;
c. The Division is scheduled to begin reclamation of
certain GEC Minerals disturbance in Section 24, T20S,
R70W, in September, 1993;
d. Reclamation of the area in Section 30, T20S, T69W known
as the East Pit has yet to begin;
e. Monies from the forfeited GEC Minerals performance bond
that would remain following the reclamation scheduled
for Section 24, T20S, R70W would be insufficient to pay
for backfilling completely the East Pit with material
from the adjacent material stockpile known informally