GENERAL37585

• Permit No: C1980006
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 1/23/1996
• Doc Name: Proposed Decision & Findings of Compliance for SL1
• From: Phase I
• Permit Index Doc Type: Findings
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

- Backfilling and grading of material from within Pit 1 and from mine site haul
roads to construct aneast-west trending ridge in the southern portion of Pit 1.
Tltis ridge shall geomorphologically connect the two north-south trending ridges
at the east and west edges of the pit;
- Grade the slopes within Pit 1 and the southeastern outslope of the east-west
ridge to a gradient of 3H:1V; and
- Construct post-mining drainage channels PD-3 (directing flow north out of
Pit 1), PD-4 (directing flow from the southern Pit 1 outslopes to the east), and
PD-5 (directing flow from the areas northeast of Pit 1 to areas south and east).
Additional matters to be considered by DMG in the course of conducting bond release
inspections are described in Section 3.03.2(2) of the Board's Regulations. These matters
include "the result of inspections and monitoring conducted pursuant to [Section] 4.05.13
[surface water and groundwater monitoring] and [Section] 5.02 [DMG site and records
inspections], the degree of difficulty to complete any remaining reclamation, and whether
pollution of surface or subsurface water is occurring, the probability of future occurrence of
such pollution, and the estimated cost of abating such pollution."
III.. Review of Materials
Materials used in conjunction with the DMG review of the Phase I Bond Release Request
for Pit 1 of the Marr Mine include:
- The permittee's April 21, 1994 application for bond release;
- The DMG Marc Mine permit and pertinent associated revisions;
- Information gathered from DMG inspections conducted pursuant to the April 21, 1994,
bond release request;
- Reports from earlier DMG inspections;
- Annual Hydrology Reports (submitted by Kerr Coal Company to DMG) from 1982-
1994; and
- Information obtained from conversations held in January 1996 between DMG personnel
and representatives from the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission and the
Colorado Department of Health and the Environment (Water Quality Control Division).
IV. Summary of the Review Process
Kerr Coal Company submitted its Phase I Bond Release Request package to DMG on
March 18, 1994. Public notice regazding its submittal was published once a week for four
cotvsecutive weeks in the Jackson County Staz between March 17, 1994, and April 18,
1994. An affidavit of publication was received by the DMG on April 18, 1994. The
application was deemed complete by DMG on April 21, 1994.
-2-