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~ ~ III IIIIIIIIIIIII III `c~. . THE SOUTH CHIEFTAIN MINE n ROBINSON BRICK AND TILE COMPANY ~JUV ~. $ ~~~ MINED LAND RECLAMATION BOARD PERMIT APPLICATION #78-13 I. The following items should be brought to the Board's attention along with a request that they consider requiring compliance by Robinson by means of a resubmittal of their South Chieftain Mine permit application. A. An accurate legal description of "affected" land as defined under the statutes, complete and specific enough to allow proper identification of the extent of operations upon City parkland. This legal descrip- tion should be metes-and-bounds with a tie to an aliquot monument, and should include sufficient measurement data to allow an accurate compu- tation of the total land area, in square feet, which is "affected". i Also identified should be the access road to West Alameda, perhaps by means of a center-line and width description. B. Once the proper and sufficient legal description has been given, the surface owners of record should be correctly given for that legal description, in form verifiable by search of the records of the Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder. By the same token, the present record owners of the "substance to be mined" should be given and also verifiable by the same means. C. Exhibit "B" - Mining Plan. The information to be given here should be much more precise and accurate as to the projected limits of the oper- ation as it progresses. This information may very easily and accurately be tied in with a proper legal description as in (A) above. The over- burden fill grading information should also be considerably more specific and should be consistent with the other parts of the application as to slope ratio and so on. Appropriate language should be included here to reinforce the present indication that "total extraction" is being practiced. In other words, once reclamation of any portion of the "affected land", after extraction, has been accomplished and approved by the Board, such reclaimed land will never again be mined for clay by Robinson and/or any future successor to Robinson's leasehold interest. Also appropriate in this exhibit would be a limitation on the maximum land area to be allowed open at any one time. This maximum may be tied to ongoing reclamation so as not to restrict Robinson's activity, yet protect the City and its citizens from a massive eyesore and excessive fugitive dust emissions. A reasonable maximum opened area might be around five (5) acres. D. Obviously, the map for Exhibit "C" is severely deficient. The accurate legal description in (A) above should be shown, as should stockpile areas, adjacent landowners, and access roads. Assuming the "affected area" is, in fact, six acres, a map scale of one inch = 200 feet would be appropriate to show all necessary detail.