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A NACO NiJA Minerals Company <br />-'' SSi Seventeenth Street <br />Denver, Colc rcCO 9CZJ~ <br />Tclepnone 303 :S3 :OG3 <br />May 20, 1985 <br />Susan t4owry <br />Reclamation Specialist <br />Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Dear Susan: <br />III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII <br />999,,] C~ <br />VY' <br />Reference is made to the area at West Elk Coal Company's (WECC) Mt. <br />Gunnison Mine known as the initial waste rock pile and as shown on <br />Attachment A to this letter. Construction of the Initial Waste Rock <br />pile was approved, with stipulations, as part of Permit C-007-80. <br />Three stipulations to the permit pertained to the design and <br />construction of the initial waste rock pile. Stipulation 21 of the <br />Ct4LRD Findings Document to Permit C-007-80 was satisfied with the <br />installation and monitoring of Wells WR-2 and 'WR-3. Stipulation 33 <br />of the CMLRD Findings Document to Permit C-007-80 was satisfied with <br />the Ci+LRD's approval of Exhibits 3.2.9.A and 3.2.9.A.1 of the Mt. <br />Gunnison Mining and Reclamation Plan (M&R Plan). Requirements in <br />Stipulation 26 were not completed since the pile was never <br />constructed. (In the three years the mine has been operating, mine <br />development waste has been stockpiled at the initial waste rock pile <br />site on a temporary basis. That material has now' been removed.) <br />Stipulation 26 was made a part of the permit since there were <br />questions about the material to be permanently disposed of in the <br />pile. At the time the permit was approved no sample material was <br />available to determine the composition of the waste material to be <br />disposed of in the initial waste rock pile. <br />WECC intended to dispose of waste rock from mine development and <br />reject from the rotary breaker. It was estimated that the material <br />would be composed of approximately 80e shale, lOp sandstone, 8w fire <br />clay and 2A coal. Because rotary breaker reject was to be included <br />in the refuse and would contain some coal material the CMLRD <br />maintained that the material was necessarily classified as coal <br />processing waste and thus stipulated that until testing proved <br />otherwise, the pile must be constructed and reclaimed as a coal <br />processing waste disposal pile. Hence the reason for Stipulation <br />26. <br />WECC no longer plans to use this sate as a waste disposal site. <br />Insteaa, due to needs for an expanded shop/warehouse area and <br />parking area, plans now call for the construction of a new shop and <br />parking pad as shown on Attachment 3 to this letter. The existing <br />shed/warenouse is located southwest of the site of the initial waste <br />rock pile as shown on Attachment A. <br />Pl.i _,•_~V~e... ;C r-.u-~.a., .~. ,, ~'P'~-. :..-+.e_.~ ern, eV-,^.E i.• i~[]I <br />