GENERAL33812

• Permit No: C1981037
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 10/22/1993
• Doc Name: PETITION FOR DECLARATORY ORDER CORLEY CO GEC MINERALS STRIP MINE REVOKED PN C-81-037 & INACTIVE MINE
• From: DMG
• To: CORLEY CO
• Permit Index Doc Type: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Department o(Nawral Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, CO 80203
Phone: [phone]
FA%: [phone]
October 22, 1993
Dr. W.D. Corley, Jr.
The Corley Company
P.O. Box 1821
Colorado Springs, CO 80901
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Roy Romer
Governor
Michael B. Long
Division Director
Re: Petition for Declaratory Order
The Corley Company, the GEC Minerals Strip Mine (Revoked Permit No. C-87-037)
and the Inactive Mines Pioneer Canon Reclamation Project
Dear Dr. Corley:
On October 21, 1993, the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board met to consider a Petition
for Declaratory Order submitted by The Corley Company. This petition, dated August 2, 1993
and addressed to Mr. Bruce Stover, was submitted to the Division on August 4, 1993. The
petition was subsequently expanded by The Corley Company per its letter of August 26, 1993
to Mr. Daniel Hernandez, submitted to the Division on August 27, 1993.
The issues of this petition involved allegations by The Corley Company that (1) the Division
was trespassing on Corley Company property while conducting certain activities pertaining to
the Inactive Mines Program's Pioneer Canon reclamation project, said project having occurred in
June and July of 1993; (2) the Division had altered legal documents related to the Pioneer
Carion project; and (3) the Division, while conducting the activities considered by The Corley
Company as trespassing, was also mining without a permit.
On October 21, during the regularly scheduled Board meeting of October 20-21, 1993, the
Board determined that it would not rule upon this petition. The reasons for this action are as
follows:
1. The Declaratory Order process has been established per Rule 1.14 of the Regulations of the
Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining for the purpose of terminating
controversies or removing uncertainties as to the applicability to the petitioner of any
statutory provision or of any rule or order of the Board.
2. None of the three parts of The Corley Company petition were requests by the petitioner for
a determination by the Board of the applicability of any statutory provision, or of any rule or
order of the Board, to the petitioner.