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_.~ i ii iiiiuiuiiu iii sss United States Department of the Interior OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT SUITE 310 625 SILVER AVENUE, S.W. ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO 87102 May 15, 1992 pp~~TApI~~p~ AN~tlCA~ ~~ ~~ ~ ~ In Reply Rrfci To: ~iAY 18 199 Mr. Steven G. Renner, Coal Program Supervisor Mined Lend Reclamation Division Department of Natural Resources 215 Centennial Building 1313 Sherman Street Denver, Colorado 80203 1Vlined Land Reclamation nf••°-~-*~ Re: Harrison Western Corporation, The West Pit and Spoil Pile of GEC Minerals Coal Mine, Revoked Permit C-g1-037 Dear Mr. Renner. Enclosed is a copy of a letter that was received in this office April 24, 1992, from the Corley Company regarding the above-mentioned mining area. Following that, Dr. Corley of the Corley Company stopped at this office to discuss the content of the letter with several of our staff members. He is concerned about a number of things that have resulted from a Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board hearing held in your office on April 22, 1992. Following the review of the letter end discussion with Dr. Corley, Gary Fritz of our office reviewed the matter with a number of your staff members via phone. At this time, we have concluded that the information contained in the letter is not sufficient to form a reason to believe that a person is in violation of the Act, the approved State program, or permit. Therefore, in accordance with OSM Directive INE-35, we ere transmitting Dr. Coney's letter via this correspondence. Based upon our discussions with Dr. Corley end your staff, we have some questions for which we would appreciate receiving information. In the recent Board meeting held in your office, of which Dr. Corely was in attendance, a Compliance Agreement was drawn up between the Board end Harrison Western Corporation, a copy of which was attached to his letter for this office's information. In that agreement, a chronology was listed of the events leading up to the present status of the mining area for which the bond is being held for reclamation end a compliance schedule for additional work to be performed. There ere a number of items in the compliance agreement to which Corley Company, as the landowner of the area in question, has taken exception. The Albuquerque Field Office (AFO) has reviewed the letter from Dr. Corley and the compliance agreement with the Harrison Western Corporation. It is not clear in the letter or in our permit documents of the mine es to what was bonded under the Harrison Western Corporation bond posted for the GEC Minerals. Please provide a description of the area originally bonded.