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i Gold Hill Mill 2 March 27, 1995 proposed future surface disturbances need to be included in the permit area, including the proposed borrow areas for fill materials needed to expand the tailing dam and to cover the tailing during reclamation. Once the permit area has been established and mapped, the permit area acreage must be determined and provided to the Division on a revised application form. 2. The various maps submitted to the Division during this application review process are contradictory and do not meet the minimum requirements of the Mineral Rules and Regulations. The Division is concerned because on the various maps submitted, ditches are shown or not shown, buildings are drawn in on some maps and left off of others, the tailing impoundment is depicted as it was designed during the mid 1980's, and apparently has not been re-surveyed and mapped as it was constructed, and it is obvious that facilities such as the topsoil pile, the monitoring wells, and the power poles, have been drawn in at approximate locations, rather than being accurately surveyed and mapped. Please submit a map, or maps labelled "Mining Plan Map" that clearly and accurately depicts proposed permit boundaries as discussed in item 1 above. Accurately portray on the map all existing and proposed future surface disturbances without contradictions, and label each item as either existing or proposed. Items to be included on the map would be roads, topsoil piles, ore bins and product stockpiles, buildings, underground openings such as the Hazel A and the Time Mine, diversion ditches, the Left Hand Creek pump station and pipeline route, man made structures such as fences and utility lines, the seep or spring below the Hazel A, the monitoring wells, and the tailing impoundment. The tailing impoundment should be surveyed and accurately mapped as it exists now, and should also be depicted, on separate maps, as it will appear in various stages related to dam raises. Also the land ownership situation within 200 feet of the proposed permit boundaries must be clearly depicted on a Mining Plan Map. The three color map submitted on February 21, 1995 contains certain obvious inaccuracies in this regard, e.g. the JoAnne unpatented lode mining claim is shown as being under the ownership of COM, Inc., when, in fact, this is public land administered by the federal government on which mining claimants in good standing would enjoy the right to develop and mine. Please correct this, and any other discrepancies and provide a complete and legible land ownership map. The mining plan map or maps submitted should be established from some permanent benchmark that is shown and described on the map. All Mining Plan maps must conform to the following criteria: (a) show name of applicant; (b) must be prepared and sinned by a registered land surveyor, professional engineer, or other qualified person; (c) give date prepared; (d) must have a title and legend (explanation) indicating the items delineated on that particular map.