GENERAL40975

• Permit No: M1980244
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 4/26/1996
• Doc Name: CRESSON PROJECT PERMIT M-80-244 PROCEDURES AND MATERIALS FOR 1996 CONSTRUCTION RESPONSE TO OFFICE OF
• From: CRIPPLE CREEK AND VICTOR GOLD MINING CO
• To: DNR
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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C ~ Cripple Creek And Victor Gold Mining Company
T A Joint Venture -Pikes Peak Mining Company, Manager
~r~ Operations Office Englewood Office
lX. P.O. Box 191, 2755 Stata Highway 67 P.O. Box 5078, 5251 DTC Parkway, Suite 700
Victor, CO 80860 Englewood, CO 80155
[phone] • FAX [phone] [phone] • FAX [phone]
April 24, 1996
SENT CERTIFIED RETURN RECEIPT REQUEST,)~I)
Mr. Berhan Keffelew '
Environmental Protection Specialist
Colorado Department of Natural Resources R F r ~ 1 ~ 1 ~ ~'
Division of Mines and Geology ApR 26 1996
Office of Mined Land Reclamation
1313 Sherman Street, Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203 Divls~o~ 01 M'~'e`~ts & `'tjj109V
Reference: Cresson Project: Permit M-80-244: Procedures and Materials For 1996
Construction. Response to Office of Mined Land Reclamation R~uest Dated
March 25. 1996 for Additional Information Re arding Drain Cover Fill.
Dear Mr. Keffelew:
The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company "CC&V") appreciates your efforts to
resolve the remaining questions regarding the thickness of the Drain Cover Fill proposed by
CC&V on January 9, 1996. This proposal was further addressed in CC&V's letter of March
4, 1996, which responded to the Office of Mined Land Reclamation's ("OMLR") initial review
of the Technical Revision. As you know, we received the referenced letter dated March 25,
1995 by facsimile on Aprii 2, 1996 and appreciate your expediting its transmission. On April
5, 1996, when CC&V received the original letter, it was found that page 2 of that letter had not
been transmitted by facsimile.
CC&V has been working diligently to understand the OMLR's remaining concerns and to
identify information that will convey an appropriate level of comfort to the OMLR to resolve
this last remaining item associated with the January 9th proposal.
The information received from the OMLR by CC&V on April 5, 1996 reflects in-depth review
by the OMLR. CC&V appreciates your narrowing of the issues to that of the Drain Cover Fill
thickness. We are, as you know, concerned that there still is some uncertainty in the minds of
the OMLR reviewers as to the suitability of the CC&V proposal for the thickness and placement
procedures for the Drain Cover Fill. Therefore we have worked to provide information and
procedures that will satisfy these concerns.
CC&V reads your letter as identifying three areas in need of further information from CC&V.
These are (I) the occurrence and effects of freezing and thawing on the Soil Liner Fill, (2) the
location, with respect to the liner, of the drainage pipes embedded in the Drain Cover Fill, and
(3) the method of placement of the Drain Cover Fill. CC&V addresses these three items in this
response. If we have omitted any other items, please let me know immediately.