GENERAL36056

• Permit No: C1981022
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 4/8/1986
• Doc Name: Midterm Review Findings Document
• Permit Index Doc Type: Findings
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Richard D. Lamm
Governor
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
David H. Gelches, Executive Director
MINED LAND RECLAMATION DIVISION
DAVID C. SHELTON, Director
April 8, 1986
Mr. Martin Holmes
Kaiser Coal Corporation
102 South Tejon Street, Suite 800
P. 0. Box 2679
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Colorado Springs, Colorado 80901-2679
Re: Mid-Term Review of Somerset Mine - File No. C-81-022
Dear Mr. Holmes:
Attached is the Division's Mid-Term Review and Decision to require revisions
to the Somerset Mine, Permit No. C-81-022. The review was in fulfillment of
Rules 2.08.3, 2.06.2(9), 2.06.3(4), 2.06.5(3), 2.06.7(5), and 3.02.2(4).
The mid-term review primarily consisted of reviewing the permit application
stipulation responses, revisions, and any supplemental information, as well as
information from field inspections and past inspection reports. The main
purpose of the review was to identify any areas of the permit application that
will need to be revised or modified to ensure compliance and reflect the
current status of the mine.
The attached document contains our mid-term review, a rationale for requiring
any revisions to the application, timetables for submitting responses, a
summary of the status of stipulations, and the results of our performance bond
review.
Questions arose under the categories of Format and Supplemental Information,
Soils and Revegetation, Surface and Groundwater Hydrology, and Bonding. The
Division requires your response to these items by June 1, 1986.
The Division requests that Kaiser Coal Corporation submit appropriate
responses to our concerns raised in this letter as a separate technical
revision in accordance with Rule 2.08.4(5)(b) to include public participation
in our review process. This will require Kaiser Coal Corporation to publish
Notice of the Technical Revision once in a local newspaper and have a copy of
the technical revision application filed by the recorder at the nearest county
courthouse. Within 60 days after the filing of the complete application for a
technical revision, the Division will issue a proposed decision approving or
denying the application in whole or in part. The Division will send Kaiser a
written copy of the proposed decision and Kaiser will publish the decision
once in a local newspaper. The public then has 10 days to request a board
hearing after such publication; otherwise the decision is final.
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