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COLORADO DEPARTMEM OF HFALTTI -Water Quality Control Division <br />.Rationale -Page 3 Permit No. COR-040000 <br />/n addition, as a rordition of this pemdt, the permiaee U required to pay the annual jee as described in the Warn <br />Quadry Control Act. Failure to submit the required fee when due and payable rs a violation of the permit and will <br />result in cnforoanent action as discuued blow. Permittus wiR bt billed for the permit fu within a few months of <br />permit ttrt~cation Jssuantt. <br />C. Volationr/Penalties <br />Duchargen of stormwattr asroctated with mining activity, os def~ntd in the EPA Storm ores Regulation (40 CFR <br />112.26(bJ(14J ~iiJ, which do not obtain roirrage order this Colorado general permit, o under an individual <br />CDPS permit rcgdating indnstrid stormwtutr, will bt in violation of the federal Clean ater Act and the <br />Cobrado Water Quaky Contnvl Act, 25-8-101 a al. Failure to romply with any CDPS it requiremem <br />ronrtituty a violation of the pemrit. Civil penalties for violations of this COPS permit o the Act may be up to <br />510,0100 per day, and criminal pollution of state waters is punishable by fines of up to S ,000 per day <br />1l1. STORMWATER DISCHARGES ASSOCIATED WITH M/NING OPERATIONS <br />The Stormwato regulations require that stornrwtuer disdrarger assorirutd with txrtain Indus al activities be rousted <br />under the permit program. Mining operations were specifirolly included in the listed indusrria activities. This general <br />permit is imended to rover stormwtuer discharges from most meta! mines. It is also imerded o temporarily rover <br />stormwtuer discharges from roal mina which bane individual aonuemional CDPS pnmits. <br />A. a nitions <br />• Mining opetndans include faclities classified as Standard lndasaial Class~aation C )0 through l4 (mineral <br />irdustryJ, including active or inactirr mining trctivitier. This includes operations that ha temporarily ceased <br />mining and arc in 'temporary ttssation' status with the Colorado Division of Minerals Geology. <br />Inactive mining operations arc mining sites that arc not being actisrty mined <br />B. 7boes ofActivitiu Covered <br />This permit u imarded to authorize most new and existing disdrarges romposed rntinly f stormwater from mining <br />operations drat arc within S/C rode 10 -Metal Mining and Milling, to facilities that du rge stormwater only. <br />Stormwruer is surfatt runoff roused by precipitation including snowmel runoff. The de ition of stornrwattr <br />e>cludes infiltration. <br />This permit is imendcd to ro>ter those portions of a meal mining or milling site that are t already subject ro <br />eBlutm limitations under 40 CFR 440. Those previously unrontrolkd areas which dis rge starmwater that <br />romes in rontact with osrrbwden, raw material, imermediate produexs, byproducts, finis ed products or waste <br />products may be rosrrcd by this permit. <br />This permit it also intended to temporarily roller etisring dscharges romposed emircly o stormwater from any <br />other mining operations that arc currently roernd by an individual CDPS permiu for d' charge of process water. <br />At the rime of rcissuantt or amendmnrt of the individual COPS permit, terms and limit 'on from bath permits will <br />be rombined into a new individual permit. Table 1 presems the categories of the mines industry and their CDPS <br />Stormwater permit roverage. <br />C. T4oes ofActivides NOTCosiered <br />• This permit doer not authonu stormwaar disdrarges from other types of regulated Ind 'a! activities. Other <br />" types of rcgdated irdrastrial activities that require slorntwatcr discharge permits pars to differcm sections of <br />the regulations [40 CFR 122.26 (bJ(!4J(-ii,iv-siJJ arc rovered under separate general iu. <br />