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DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES David H. Getches, Executwe Director MINED LAND RECLAMATION DI\ DAVID C. SHELTO N, Director Richartl D Lamm Governor DATE: ro January 15, 1986 Bob Liddle FROM: Dan Mathews RE: Contemporaneous Reclamation Issue Area 2 Pit Contemporaneous Reclamation: Chronology (Part 1) 1. Pit mined between 1978 & 1980. 2. Colorado Yampa Coal Company (CYCC) requested variance from Contemporaneous Reclamation in Permit No. 79-177 to allow for development of underground mine. 3. Office of Surface Mining (OSM) approval document stipulated that a specific plan would have to be submitted for underground mine by December 31, 1980 in order to grant the variance. 4. A preliminary plan for underground development was submitted in satisfaction of that stipulation in December, 1980, 5. In April, 1983, Permit No. C-056-82 was issued to Twenty Mile Coal Company. A variance from Contemporaneous Reclamation for the Entire Area 2 pit was approved to allow for facilities and waste disposal. 6. In September, 1984, Division approved a technical revision which entailed waste disposal immediately west of the facilities, rather than in the far western end of the pit. Since the western end of the pit was no longer going to be utilized by Twenty Mile, the approval stipulated backfilling of the western portion of the pit by March, 1985. 7, In December, 1984, CYCC submitted a comprehensive grading plan for backfilling several non contemporaneous areas at Eckman Park and Mine 1 and Mine 3 during 1985. The plan called for completion of grading in the designated portion of the Area 2 Pit by October 8, 1985. _ 8. Asa result of the December, 1984 letter, and a subsequent letter of July, 1985, which included reclamation bonding calculations, CYCC reassumed reclamation responsibility for the western portion (that portion not to be used by Twenty Mile) of the Area 2 Pit. A revised Bond was submitted in September, 1985. However, this responsibility was never officially revised through technical revision by either Twenty Mile Coal Company or Colorado Yampa Coal Company. Officially, the obligation still lies with Twenty Mile Coal Company. Twenty Mile Coal Company has subsequently submitted a revised permit application in which the pit section in question has been deleted from the proposed permit area. 423 Centennial Building, 1313 Sherman Street Denver, Colorado 80203 Tel. (303) 866-3567 • ~II ~I~II~II~~~I~~I~