GENERAL43409

• Permit No: C1981037
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 10/8/1992
• Doc Name: MEMO EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• From: CATHY BEGEJ
• To: FILE
• Permit Index Doc Type: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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the Fremont County Special Use Permit occurred and the minerals leases in Sections 30
~ and 31 were clarified. However, the Board never affirmed Dr. Corley's request to require
G.E.C. to meet the reclamation obligations associated with historic mining as described by
the lease, but not included in the G.E.C. permit. In addition, they upheld the Division's
right to make decisions over the landowner's objections.
The C-77-48 permit application was not complete, but two maps did provide interesting
information. - ini A Figure C-2, "Pre-Mining
Map" was a topography map at a scale of 1 " = 660'. The map shows utilities and
disturbed areas identified by either Gates Engineering 1973, or an EPA aerial photo, 1976.
The disturbed areas are identified in Sectional, 11, 12, 13 and 14, T19S, R70W, Sections
6, 7, 18, T19S, R69W, and Section525 and 26, T20S, R70W. Section 24 did not have
any disturbance identified besides the topographic map's identification of the Corley No. 6
Mine, Canon Chief Mine, Mine Dump, Black Diamond and Double Dick Mines.
Information about Section 24 did get transposed, however, onto the 12/20/78 revision of
the G.E.C. Minerals Fremont County Strip Mine Extension Map. This map indicates that
the Gates Engineering - 1973 study identified disturbance in Section 24 in 134 acres of
the tipple/refuse area/Corley No. 6 areas, through the drainage to the tie-across road to
County Road 15, and in the Double Dick area.
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These maps, as well as Exhibit F, revised 1 1 /12/79 and entitle Reclamation Map -Tipple
Area, G.E.C. 4-3 identified 4 acres of obligation: 2.64 acres o the Refuse Area; 17 acres
of the Tipple Area; 13.4 acres of the North Orphan Mine and acres of the Orphan Mine.
This map corresponded fairly well with Map 24 of the permanent program permit (Post-
Mine Topography) with the exception that G.E.C. only identified 3.4 acres in the North
Orphan Pit Area rather than 13.4 acres. G.E.C. did not identify the drainage between the
tipple and the North Orphan Pit as their responsibility. However coal waste piles west of
the tipple pond did fall into the disturbed area acreage associated with the tipple.
Colorado performed an inventory of coal mines in Fremont County through the firm,
Imuedo and Ivey on October 22, 1980. Problem area data forms were examined as were
a small number of black and white photos. Six sites were described in Section 24: Annex
No. 1, Corley No. 6, Canon Chief Mine, the Black Diamond Mine, Pioneer Canon #2 and
the Double Dick. Annex No. 1 was an underground mine with portals located opposite the
Corley No. 6 portals, near the cinder block shop. At the time of the field inspection, the
investigator observed 8 subsidence holes which he attributed to the entries of this mine.
The Corley No. 6 underground mine portals are located north of the refuse area. The
investigator indicated that the portal was concealed by spoils and that dumps from the
mine were scattered but were primarily concentrated northeast of the tipple. The Canon
Chief strip was operated by Weckerling, who left spoils scattered in the general tipple area
along the road between County Road 15 and Ray Curby's current house. The investigator
indicated that there was no sign of the Black Diamond underground portals due to
stripping. The figure on the inspection report shows an area identified as 'scattered
dump, timbers and trash extending 350' by 315' on both sides of a roadway identified as