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s • <br />COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF Hl:IL7N -Water Qualiry Courol Dlvisic•n <br />Rmlanak -Page 3 Permit Na. COR-040000 <br />/n addition, as a condlrion ojrhis permit, the pcrrrritree is required to pay r1u annual fee as ducribed in the Water <br />Qualiry Courol Att. Failure to submit the required jce when due and payable is a violation of tlrc permit and will <br />trsu6 in enjorameu anion as discussed bclaw. Permitrees will be billed for the pmnis jee within a jew mondtr of <br />permit art~[aflOA IS.tnaAa. <br />C. ' Yolations/Penalriu <br />Dischargers of srormwater assocated with mining activity, as defined in the EPA Stormwatcr Regulation (40 CfR <br />122.26(b)(14) (ii), which do nor obtain rovrrage under this Calamdo general permit, or under an individual <br />CDPS permit regulating indrvtria/ starmwarer, will 6e in violation of du federal Clean Warts Act and the <br />Cobrado Water Qualiry Control Act, 25.8-I01 u al. Failure ro romply with any LDPS permit rcquirement <br />rnnsriturrs a violation of the pmnir. Civil pcnaltiu jot violations of this CDPS permit or die Ad may he «p ro <br />Slo,ac» per day, and criminal pollution of stare waxen tr punishable !ry fetus of uP ro 525,000 per day. <br />111. STIORMWATER DISCH.IRGES ASSOCIATED WITH MINING OPERA7TONS <br />The Srormwater rcgulatlans require that srormwarer discharge associated with amain irrdumial activities be cosrred <br />under the permit program. Mining operations wire tpeciJicalty included in the lifted irdurtrial acivitiu. This general <br />permit is ineended ra mutt stormwattr duchargu from most metal mines. Ir is also iuendad to tgnpanrrily aovtr <br />rrormwascr discharge from coal mina which haue individual ronvYUional CDPS ptrmiu. <br />A. a Hire u <br />Mining opcrotians include facilitler classified as Standard Industrial Claincation Codes 10 through 14 (mineral <br />irulusrry), including active or inadivr mining aaivitiu. This incrsd%s operations that have renrpotmily ceased <br />mining and arc in 'temporary assertion' status with the Colorado Division of Minerals and Geobgy. <br />Imcdve mining opemdons ax mining sirs that are not being naively mined <br />B. I4us of Aaiviriu Covered <br />Zhu pcrm(t is inrnrdtd ro authorize most new and rsisring drschargu composed tntinly of stottmvarer from mining <br />apcrariont rhos are within SIC cods !0 -Meal Mining and Milling, m janWries char dvaharge stormwartr only. <br />Srormworcr is surjaa runoff mused by pxdpitmlon Including rnox+mdr runoff. The definition of stormwrutr <br />ercludrs infihration. <br />This permit a intended so cover those portions of a mcra[ mining or milling sire that are nos alxrrdy subject to <br />e,Blucnr [imitations urtdcr 00 CFR 440. ]host pmiarssly unronrrol[ed arcas which discharge stormwarer that <br />romes in contact with overburden, raw material, iutimediare products, byproducts, finishcd praducxs or wane <br />produce may be covered by rhir permit. <br />?his permit is also iuetrded to rarrporarily cover evsring discharges composed euirely of stotmwater from any <br />other mining operations that are currtuly covered by an individual CDPS permits for dudrarge of process water. <br />Ar the rime of rcisruana or amendmeu of the individual CDPS permit, rums and /imitation from both perinea will <br />6e combined into a new individual pmnir. Table 1 pnuertu the categories of the mineral industry and cheer CDPS <br />Srarmwatcr permit aovrrage. <br />C. ]ypes ofAaiviriu NOTCovertd <br />This permit dou nor authorize ttormwattr discharger from orhn rypes of regulated irdurrria! aaivitiu. Other <br />types of regulated irdustrial aaiviriu than requirc rrormwater discharge permits punuau to different sectianr of <br />she regulations (40 CFR 122.26 (bJ(14J(i-ii,iv-:i)l are covered undo separate general permits. <br />