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Daniel I. Hernandez 3 October 19, 1992 Dr. Corley was very involved in the Board hearings in the summer of 1979. The Board encouraged the Division to investigate Dr. Corley's concerns, and over the next five months, the Board minutes indicate that many of his issues were resolved. These included having the "Canon National" exploration pit incorporated into the mining and reclamation plan, having the disturbance resulting from a trespass by Hastings into the G.E.C. permit area reclaimed, having the bond increased ten-fold to 3650,000, and having the Fremont County Special Use Permit and the mineral leases in Sections 30 and 31 clarified. The Board never affirmed Dr. Corley's request to require G.E.C. to meet the reclamation obligations associated with historic mining as described in its leases, but not included in the G.E.C. permit. In addition, the Board upheld the Division's right to make decisions regarding reclamation over the landowner's objections. The C-77-48 permit application was not entirely complete, but two maps did provide interesting information. Figure C-2, a "Pre-Mining Map", was a topography map drawn to a scale of 1" = 660'. The map shows utilities and disturbed areas identified with stippling or cross-hatching by either a 1973 Gates Engineering study or by a 1976 EPA aerial photo. The disturbed areas identified in this Figure lie in Sections 1, 1 1, 12, 13 and 14, T19S, R70W, Sections 6, 7, and 18, T19S, R69W, and Sections 25 and 26, T20S, R70W. Section 24 did not have any disturbance identified with stippling or cross hatching on this Figure. There was only the U.S.G.S. 1 1 /2 minute designation of the location of the Corley No. 6 Mine, the Canon Chief Mine, the Mine Dump, the Black Diamond Mine and the Double Dick Mine. 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 second map indicates that the Gates Engineering study identified disturbances in Section 24 within 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 Mine area. These maps, as well as Exhibit F, revised 11 /12/79 and entitled "Reclamation Map -Tipple Area, G.E.C. 4-3", identified 4 areas of obligation: 2.64 acres of the Refuse Area; 17 acres of the Tipple Area; 13.4 acres of the North Orphan Mine and 5.5 acres of the Orphan Mine. This third 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. e On October 22, 1980, the Division performed an inventory of coal mines in Fremont County through the firm of Imuedo and Ivey. Problem Area Data Forms developed by this firm for this inventory were examined, as were a small number of black and white photos. Six sites were described in Section 24 by Imuedo and Ivey: the Annex No. 1 Mine, the Corley No. 6 Mine, the Canon Chief Mine, the Black Diamond Mine, the Pioneer Canon f/2 Mine and the Double Dick Mine.