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' ~~ III IIIIIIIIIIIII III i 'Q,MfNT OF r~E TAKE- ~ ~"° '; United States Department of the Interior aPA~iE°wEc"A N - ~ a - OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING~ ~ ~~RCH ~ +0~~ Reclamation and Enforcement ~ ~ IN RFPLYRFf'PA TO: Suite 1200 505 Marquette Avenue N.W. Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102 NOV 1 6 1993 c ~~ Mr. Larry Mautz P.O. Box 624 Aspen, Colorado 81612 Dear Mr. Mautz: This year the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is preparing an evaluation of the performance of Colorado's Division of Minerals and Geology (DMG) regarding the handling of citizen complaints. OSM is the Federal agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior which has been charged with preparing yearly evaluations of DMG's performance with respect to the State's regulations for coal mining, environmental compliance, and reclamation. Colorado's regulations require that DMG investigate complaints filed by citizens who allege problems about coal mining. OSM regards DMG's responsiveness to and handling of such complaints as important indicators of the quality of DMG's required regulatory performance regarding public participation in coal mining issues. The evaluation which OSM is preparing this year will include citizen complaints filed with DMG, or handled by DMG, during the period of July 1, 1992, through June 30, 1993. DMG records indicate that in early June of 1993, you filed a citizen complaint with DMG alleging that subsidence damaged a spring on your property; flow from the spring, which supplied domestic water, was either interrupted or discontinued. I have enclosed a questionnaire about DMG's handling of your complaint which I hope you will take a few minutes to respond to and then return to me. Your answers and comments entered on the questionnaire will assist OSM in evaluating DMG's responsiveness to the public. If you need more comment space, please feel free to include your additional comments on a separate piece of paper