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`~, <br />tiusan Nccarrteb <br />":ay 3, 2000 <br />Pa~P 2 <br />5~ <br />5cace of °t:tnit <br />As discussed in more da~ail in the attuta:eti technical c~mnte~ts ;.y Re~h}• PAounrain <br />rJftSllltilnl6 tlnn Oll1CI~, th= scope of the ixr:rit is Ifl SU r~: ~ICn:. -aC ~OitGt Jf ~•'1'J~al]OA <br />issued 6y the Environmental ?:otccr,o,~ Agency on August 19, :9')9, s:a?es shot "tltcsc <br />(four] soots, m addition to :::e hytirolug:c CJ^nC .ion bctwCCn :i:c West Pit and the Rito <br />Seco Alluvia:n iden:ifitd by y~I!21.~13M4 in doctmtcnts supp!ir to CD1vIG, are <br />cunsidercti point source discha:~cs to surface writer and :ryuire a CD['~ permit." <br />Similarly, 4:c CDPIIE tivtice of Violation dateA August ?0, i;°91, ~aaeribCS bosh the <br />discharge from the sezps into a'tc RiW Seco (T 25) and the disc':,ar;c 5orn the Nest Pit <br />into the ftIIO Scco !111uvial Ayuifcr (? 2G) as discltargc of palluraats without a permit. <br />Accordingly, is addition ro the a•;:stewater tre;trment dischxr3c, the y1%cst Pit discharge to <br />the allt,vi~.mt anti the four sees rtes? e~h hit considered a scP~.tc anti distinct discharr~c <br />point. making a total of six scnaratc discharge noirtts to be netn:itted ;.ad monitored. <br />itt~c <br />We 6elicve that tt is mcorrecl xs a maLLer of law to issue the per*ait only to Battle <br />Moumaia Itesottrces, Inc. Doct:tnentatiun indicates that Batdc \Sou;rtain Gold Company <br />is a co-operator of the facility artd should also be one of tltc pcnitittecs• Pleaso note the <br />following: Initial reporting of the ttnpemtiitcd dischart;r:.°tom tl:e 5rst suriace seep was <br />made by a B1~IG ofi}ciul, Ana Buidrige, Vicr President of Envirottntenlal and <br />Governutentai Affairs for Bi41G, by letter [o CDPHF, dated lVovantber 2, 1995. Ci)PHF. <br />N4V, ~ t 3. Tltc operator's certification and signature page suotritted as Appendix C W <br />ilte CDPS permit application, Minimal Disc!targa Industrial Wastewater dated August <br />30,1999, is signed by .Dan Robertson as Operations Manager on Battle Ibiountain gold <br />letterhead (xttxched). Similarly, the tetrlmicol supparl document for the CDPS permit <br />:tppliicaoon dated August Z0, ] 999, is signod and eortitied by ~I: • Robertson as <br />Operations Mtinagot•, alt}tough this certification does not appear on H?dG lcttcnc~a~i <br />(attached), Tne footer ott the bottom of the page indtcates, however, that Mr. IZobertsou <br />has signet the identical cenification document; only the BhIG logo and address have <br />been excised. i he address for Mr. 2obcrtsoa at Bnttlc Mountain Gold Co, which <br />aVr+va~s an the Gperator's Ceriification Cur the Minimal DischargC Application is the <br />satntr street address, far ar+.d phone number which is shown for h7r. Robertson at "Battle <br />Mountain Resources, ]nc." on dte drsitperrttitrationnlc Et page 1. <br />'r}tc Notice of Violation and Cease and Desist Order of CDPIiL was scat to IIil1 Lyle, <br />Director of Etrvirotuacttlal Affairs • U.S. fcr Bette Mountain Gold Cornpany. Mr. I,yIe, <br />fY?0114::a„W:lay+N 1J•W nM <br />