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exact volume of topsoil that had been stockpiled on site and the exact number of disturbed azea <br />acreage. A final adequacy letter was sent on November 25, 1998. This issue was resolved with no <br />new revised pages and the permit renewal decision was proposed to be approved on February 17, <br />1999. <br />The third permit renewal term expired on August 23, 2003. The Division sent the required 270 day <br />notification letter on November 22, 2003. In that letter, the Division informed the operator that a <br />complete permit renewal application would need to be received by the Division by February 24, <br />2003 in order to secure the right of successive renewal. <br />The Division received the permit renewal submittal, dated January 30, 2003, on February 3, 2003. <br />The submittal was called complete by the Division on February 7, 2003. Completeness letters were <br />sent to the appropriate federal, state and local government agencies, as well as to private water <br />regulatory concems. The public notice that informed the public of the submittal of the permit <br />renewal was published four times in the Delta County Independent. The publication dates were <br />February 12, 19, 26 and Mazch 5, 2003. The Division did not receive any letters from these <br />governmental or private concerns, or from the public. <br />In a letter dated March 25, 2003, the Division sent its preliminary adequacy review. The Terror <br />Creek Company responded in two letters, one dated Apri123, 2003 and the other dated May 8, 2003. <br />Because not all of the identification of interests concems had been resolved, the Division sent a <br />second adequacy review letter, dated June 23, 2003. Subsequent letters, three by the Terror Creek <br />Company dated August 22, 2003, September 5, 2003 and October 10, 2003, and one by the Division <br />dated September 5, 2003, finally resolved the identification of interests concerns. <br />Description of the Environment <br />Site Description and Land Use-Rule 2.04.3 <br />Information regazding site description and land use can be located in the permit application in section <br />2.04.3. <br />The 13.6-acre permit area is situated on a moderately steep (approximately 15% slope) colluvial <br />deposit between State Highway 133 and the flood plain of the North Fork of the Gunnison River, at <br />an approximate elevation of 5,900 feet. The surrounding area is mountainous, with elevations <br />ranging up to 8,300 feet at the summit of Jumbo Mountain, to the southeast of the permit azea. The <br />North Fork of the Gunnison has the appeazance of a moderately broad alluvial valley, extending to <br />approximately 1,500 feet wide. The valley separates high table lands south of the river from the <br />slopes of the Grand Mesa to the north. <br />The permit azea is drained by the North Fork of the Gunnison River and two unnamed ephemeral <br />drainages. Water in the North Fork is chazacterized as a calcium bicazbonate type with moderate <br />levels of sulfate. Figure 1 shows the location of the Terror Creek Loadout in relation to the other <br />mines within the North Fork drainage basin. <br />The flood plain of the North Fork, immediately to the south of the permit azea, has been found to <br />meet the geomorphic criteria and irrigation requirements of an alluvial valley floor (AVF). <br />3 <br />