GENERAL34214

• Permit No: C1981024
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 5/8/1989
• Doc Name: CCMC 1 MINE PN C-81-024 TR
• From: MLRD
• To: RALPH N MATTHES
• Permit Index Doc Type: PUBLIC CORRESPONDENCE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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DEPARTMENT OFNATURALRESOURCES
MINED LAND RECLAMATION DIVISION
FRED R. BANTA, Dlreetor
May 8, 1989
Mr. Ralph N. Matthes
P.O. Box 1243
Walsenburg, CO 81089
Re: CCMC #1 Mine (Permit C-81-024) Technical Revisions
Dear Mr. Matthes:
The Division has received your letter dated May 4, 1989 requesting additional
information regarding the technical revisions for Permit No. C-81-024. Since
there have been a number of these, it is difficult to adequately respond
without knowing which one or ones you are actually interested in. Assuming,
however, that your interest has to do with technical revisions for which
relatively recent public announcements have been made, I will attempt to
cover those.
Technical Revision 09, which involved a change in the reclamation plan for
the mine, was approved by the Division January 30, 1989, and notice of this
decision was published February 6, 1989 in the Trinidad Chronicle News.
This technical revision provided for modifying the reclamation plan for the
property to correspond to the actual amount and nature of the disturbance
that has occurred. The reclamation to be conducted this summer by the mine's
operator, Kaiser Steel Resources, will follow the revised plan. The scheduled
reclamation which involves filling of the pit, eliminating the overburden
pile, etc. should largely return the property to its original appearance and,
ultimately, original use. I should think this would be desirable so far as
the local landowners are concerned. Some drainage ditches and the sediment
pond will not be irtmediately reclaimed but retained until runoff from the
reclaimed areas no longer carries excessive sediment load.
Technical Revision 10, which provides for a suspension of hydrologic
monitoring at the CCMC property, was proposed April 12, 1989. Public notice
of this proposed technical revision was made recently in the Huerfano World
in Walsenburg. The Division has not yet approved this technical revision but
is likely to do so in the very near future. Hydrologic monitoring of both
surface and groundwater was required in the original permit for the mine. As
a result of the limited amount of disturbance of the property, the monitoring
requirements have been reduced by two prior technical revisions to the area
of actual disturbance. Reclamation of the property is scheduled to begin this
summer. Due to the planned reclamation of the mine and the fact that the
monitoring to date has not demonstrated any significant hydrologic effects of
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