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on July 21, 1983. The proposed decision was published in the North Fork Times on July 21 and 28, 1983. No objections to the proposed decision were received; therefore, the Division's decision became final on August 22, 1983. Terror Creek Company subsequently encountered difficulty in procuring final approval of the bond due to misunderstandings between the Division, the bank, and Terror Creek. An acceptable bond was submitted, however, and the mining permit was signed on January 28, 1985 retroactive to August 23, 1983. The application for renewal of the permit was submitted on March 18, 1988. Notice of the complete application was published in the North Fork Times on April 7, 14, 21, and 28, 1988. One letter was received from a citizen adjacent to the loadout operation. The letter contained concerns about dust generation. The Air Quality Permits for the loadout were modified and clarified during the period of time that the permit renewal application was under review. The Division responded to the citizen indicating that the Terror Creek loadout was believed to be in compliance with the Mining Permit and the Air Quality Permits. No requests for an informal conference were received during the review period. An application for a third permit term was submitted to the Division on February 22, 1993. Notice of the complete application of Permit Renewal No. 2 was published in the North Fork Times on March 10, 17, 24 and 31, 1993. The Division's preliminary adequacy review was sent on April 23, 1993, and TCC's responses were received on June I, 1993, in the form of a minor revision. This minor revision was approved on June 1 1, 1993, and this decision was subsequently issued. The operator submitted their Permit Renewal No. 3 application on February 6, 1998. The renewal application was deemed complete on February 13, 1998, with publication of the completeness notice in the Delta County Independent on February 18 and 25 and March 4 and March 11, 1998. The Division's adequacy review questions were sent to the operator on April 15, 1998 with all adequacy review questions satisfactorily answered by the Terror Creek Company. All of the permit application revised pages and maps were incorporated into the permit application in Minor Revision No. 17. Questions then arose as to the exact volume of topsoil that had been stockpiled on site and the exact number of disturbed area acres. A final adequacy letter was sent on November 25, 1998. This issue was resolved with no new revised pages. The permit renewal decision for approval was proposed on February 17, 1999 with the permit being issued retroactive to August 23, 1998. In a letter dated November 22, 2002, the Division informed the operator that a complete submittal for Permit Renewal No. 4 was due by February 24, 2003. The Division received the submittal package on February 3, 2003 and found it to be complete on February 7, 2003. Completeness notification letters were mailed on February 7, 2003 to the appropriate local, county, state and federal agencies, as well as the local water district and irrigation company. The public notice of completeness was published in the Delta County Independent on February 12, 19, 26 and March 5, 2003. The Division sent its first adequacy review letter to the operator on March 25, 2003. The Terror Creek Company replied in response letters dated April 23, 2003 and May 8, 2003. The Division sent its second adequacy review letter on June 23, 2003. In this letter, the Division revised its reclamation cost estimate based on comments from the operator. Terror Creek Company submitted their third adequacy response letter dated August 22, 2003. The only issues remaining involved ownership and control information and these issues were submitted to the operator in a letter dated September 5, 2003 with operator responses in submittals dated September 5, 2003 and October l0, 2003. The proposed decision to approve Permit Renewal No. 4 was made on October 17, 2003, with the public notice of the proposed decision published in the Delta County Independent on October 22, 2003 and October 29, 2003. The thirty day public comment period passed with no objections so the permit was issued retroactive to August 23, 2003. Revised pages and maps for Permit Renewal No. 4 were incorporated into the permit application through Minor Revision No. 20. The due date for submittal of this midterm review findings document and adequacy review to the operator is February 23, 2006.