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DRMS Permit Index
Permit No
C1989074
IBM Index Class Name
General Documents
Doc Date
2/12/2001
Doc Name
Proposed Decision & Findings of Compliance for RN2
Permit Index Doc Type
Findings
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<br />6. For this surface mining operation, private mineral estate has not been severed from <br />private surface estate, therefore, the documentation specified by Rule 2.03.6(2) is not <br />required. (2.07.6(2)(f)) <br />7. On the basis of evidence submitted by the applicant and received from other state and <br />federal agencies as a result of the Section 34-33-114(3) compliance review required by <br />the Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act, the Division finds [hat Rimrock <br />Coal Company does not own or control any operations which are currently in violation <br />of any law, rule or regulation of the United States, or any state law, rule, or regulation <br />or any provision of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act or the Colorado <br />Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act. However, the operator, Landmark <br />Reclamation, Inc. has a link through one its owners, Mr. Richard Randall, to <br />outstanding civil penalties levied by the Oklahoma Department of Mines for abated <br />Cessation Orders issued in 1982. Randall and Blake is in the process of appealing <br />these fines and attempting to establish that Mr. Randall had no ownership or control of <br />the Oklahoma operations at the time the Cessation Orders were issued. In addition, <br />the Division has attached two stipulations to the permit renewal (RN-O1), Stipulations <br />6 & 7, which deal directly with this issue. (2.07.6(2)(g)(ii)) <br />8. Neither Rimrock Coal Company nor Landmark Reclamation, Inc. control or have <br />controlled mining operations with a demonstrated pattern of willful violations of the <br />Act of such nature, duration, and with such resulting irreparable damage to the <br />environment as to indicate an intent not to comply with the provisions of the Act. <br />(2.07.6(2)(h)) <br />9. The Division finds that surface coal mining reclamation operations to be performed <br />under this permit will not be inconsistent with other such operations anticipated to be <br />performed in areas adjacent to the permit azea. (2.07.6(2)(1)) <br />l0. The Division has holds a bond in the form of a Corporate Surety, in the amount <br />$31,000.00. This bond received approval on February 14, 1994. <br />This bond will cover the Division's projection of reclamation costs to complete <br />the remainder of the reclamation plan. It also reflects 50% bond release from <br />reclamation work completed by the operator in the Phase I mine plan west pit <br />area of the mine. This release was approved by the Division in December <br />1993, during the previous permit term. (2.07.6.(2)(j)) <br />11. The Division has made a negative determination for the presence of prime farmland <br />within the permit area. The decision was based on information provided by the <br />applicant describing the history of land use, steepness of slopes, lack of irrigation, low <br />average annual precipitation, and rockiness of soils in the area. This determination <br />was confirmed with a letter from the Soil Conservation Service in Trinidad, Colorado, <br />13 <br />
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