GENERAL36630

• Permit No: C1981029
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 5/22/1986
• Doc Name: Findings of the Final Decision of the MLRD for SL1
• From: Phase I on Pit Area
• Permit Index Doc Type: Findings
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Mined Land Reclamation Board
Department of Natural Resources
State of Colorado
In the Matter of:
Sun Coal Company
Meadows No. 1 Mine
Bond Release Application
)Affirmation in part
)of the Mined Land
)Reclamation Division's
)Decision to Grant
)Partial Release of
Bond Held for
Permit No. C-029-81
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This matter was presented at a hearing before the Mined Land Reclamation Board
(hereinafter "Board") on May 22, 1986 in response to separate requests for a
Formal Hearing filed by Sun Coal Company and Mr. John A. Eilts (landowner)
pursuant to the Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act, Section
34-33-101 et seq. The requests fora formal hearing were submitted in
response toTpublication of a proposed decision by the Mined Land
Reclamation Division (hereinafter "Division") to approve in part an
application for bond release.
Board members Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, Bob Formwalt, David Getches, and
Terry O'Connor were present. Chairperson Dickey Lee Hullinghorst presided
over the hearing. The hearing held by the Board was adjudicatory in nature,
as required by CRS, Section 34-33-125(5) and Section 24-4-105 of the State
Administrative Procedures Act.
Pursuant to the authority vested in the Mined Land Reclamation Board by CRS
34-32-125(5) and Rule 303.2(6) of the Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land
Reclamation Board for Coal Mining, the Board hereby makes the following
findings of fact and conclusions of law.
Findings of Fact
1. Sun Coal Company submitted an application for bond release for the pit
area on February 8, 1985 and an application for bond release for the
haul road on July 11, 1985 pursuant to Section 34-33-125(1), CRS 1973.
The applications requested approximately 90 percent release of the bond
held for these areas.
2. A proposed decision was issued by the Division on February 21, 1986 to
grant 60 percent release of the bond portion applicable to the pit
area, and 0 percent release of the bond portion applicable to the haul
road.
3. Objections to the proposed decision were filed by Sun Coal Company on
March 19, 1986, and by John Eilts on March 11, 1986. A Board hearing
was requested.
4. At the Board's formal hearing on April 24, 1986 the matter was
continued due to a lack of specificity in the hearing requests of both
Sun Coal and John Eilts.