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_P_ • III III IIIIII IIII III • 999 DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY Depanmenl of Natural Resources 131 3 Sherman 51., Room 215 Denver, Colorado 90203 ' Phone: (7071 866-7567 FA%~ 13071 832-8106 March 10, 1995 Mrs. Ann Tatum 8703 Bonhomme Houston, Texas 77074 RE: Citizen's Complaint, Structural Inventory, Golden Eagle Mine, C-81-013 Dear Mrs. Tatum: II~~~ DEPARTMEtJT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Roy Romer Goverror lames S. Lochhead Execmive Director Michael 9. Long Divivan Orteaor This letter is in response to your letter dated February 6, 1995 and received by the Division on February 13, 1995 in which you filed a citizen's complaint alleging that the Basin Resources, Golden Eagle Mine did not identify your barn or your windmill in their structural inventory. Thank you for your concern and participation in identifying these permitting issues. The Division investigated your concerns by inspecting aerial photographs, by reviewing the Golden Eagle mine permit and by conducting an inspection on March 1, 1995. On the basis of our investigation, the Division did not find sufficient basis to issue a notice of violation. However, a permit defect was noted and the mine will be notified that a revision to the permit is required. The review of the permit found that the structural inventory map had not been updated by identifying a barn located approximately 300 feet west of your residence. The windmill however is identified in the regional hydrology map (figure #5 in the permit application) and this is acceptable since all hydrologic structures in the permit area and in adjacent areas are identified here. When the Golden Eagle mine conducted the initial structural inventory, it identified all structures within the permit area and in the adjacent areas. The barn that you have identified as not being on the structural inventory map was built in 1992, after the structural initia! inventory was conducted at the mine. The Division will require that the mine update the inventory to include the barn. To ensure that all structures are protected from subsidence the Division had attached a stipulation to the approval of the recent permit renewal that required Basin Resources to conduct quarterly inventories of structures in the active mining area. The following is that stipulation. Stimulation No. 72 • STATE OF COLORADO Basin Resources will conduct on a quarterly basis an on-the-ground survey for the existence of structures in: