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III ELLURIDE GRAVEL, INC. 270 Highway 625 • Telluride, CO 81435 (970) 728-3775 • Fax (970) 728-3015 October 30, 2000 Steve Shuey Division of Minerals and Geology Durango Field Office 701 Camino del Rio, Room 215 Durango, CO 81301 IIIIIIIIIIIII III RFCE~VED NOV 0 3100p Division of ginerals and Geola9Y RE: Alexander Pit, Permit No. M-1976-032 Dear Mr. Shuey: Received OCT 3 ° 2000 Durango Field Office Dlvlabn of Minerals 8 Geology fiy.~~1 1. f tR ~^ ~••~ti~•\~.d iA ~~ ~ ~: ~1 a~l~cc~,r PEA This letter is in response to your letter of October I I, 2000. 1 will go through a short chronology of the events that 1 believe lead to your writing the letter. [n doing so, I will be summarizing what I discussed with you in our phone conversation last week. i would like to start by emphasizing that 1 did not know that we were in any situation that would put us in violation with our DMG Permit. The last inspection that 1 have on file (dated 12-17-97) shows that Telluride Gravel had no problems, possible violations, m corrective actions. Although you discussed possible permit revisions in the "OBSERVATIONS" portion of your report at that time, you only stated [ha[ revisions may be required. Your report then mentions the fact that you observed both fill and stumps on the USFS land, yet there were no corrective measures mentioned or even possible violations. At the time of that 1997 report, 1 had only been with Telluride Gravel for a short time and this was my first contact that 1 had ever had (in my life) with the DMG. I assumed that everything was okay after 1 received your follow-up report in the mail after the site inspection. The first that 1 was awaze of any possible violations was in your report that was dated 5-25-00. There were four corrective actions listed in that 5-25-00 report. I addressed all of those items and sent a letter to you on September 5, 2000 that detailed the actions that we took. In response, you sent the letter dated October 1 I, 2000. After reading your letter, I realize that just addressing the corrective actions listed was not enough, since several items in your letter were not anything that required a corrective action. I apologize for that assumption, but I will address them now. Each pazagraph in your letter constitutes a separate item listed below. Item 1 It is agreed that we do have permit boundary markers that are in place. We added another fence post and painted all of them orange. item 2 I agree that the site remains virtually unchanged from year to year. We are basically awholesale/retail gravel operation. The only excavation that has taken place is some re-grading of the pit floor. We do impart suitable crushing material and stockpile it in the area that you've described. This is then crushed into road base every fall. This pile is not a permanent feature and does not have to be addressed. I don't know what kind of documentation I can produce which would state that it is indeed being crushed - I can only tell you that it is taking place. We currently have a crusher in the pit that will be here for approximately six weeks. The import pile is much smaller than when you looked at it and the road base piles are much larger.