PERMFILE121484

• Permit No: M2004027
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 8/9/2004
• Doc Name: Decision Letter
• From: DMG
• To: Otero County
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Department of Natural Resources
1373 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
PERFORMANCE WARRANTY
Pennittee: Otero County
Operation: Mendenhall Pit
Permit No: M-2004-027
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT:
COLORADO
DIVISION O F
M1N sRALS
GEOLOGY
REC LANATION•NINING
SAFETT•SCIENCE
gnu Owens
Governor
Russell George
E><ecutlve Director
Ronald W. Cattany
Division Director
Natural Resource Trustee
WHEREAS, the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Act, C.R.S. 34-32-101 et sue. (the "Act"), as
amended, and the Colorado Land Reclamation Act for the Extraction of Construction Materials,
C.R.S. 34-32.5-101 et sue. (the "Act"), as amended, provides that no permit may be issued lender the Act until the
Mined Land Reclamation Boazd (the "Boazd") receives a performance warranty (or warranties) that is a written
promise to comply with all applicable requirements of the Act.
WHEREAS, Otero County (the "Pem3ittee"), has applied for a permit to conduct a mining operation
Imown as Mendenhall Pit (the "Operation") on certain lands in Otero County, Colorado. These lands aze
described in the permit application, as amended and supplemented, and aze referred to herein as the "Affected
Lands".
WHEREAS, in its application for the permit, the Permittee has agreed to be bolmd by all requirements of
the Act and all applicable rules and regulations of the Boazd, as amended from time to time.
WHEREAS, the Boazd has determined, in accordance with the Act, that the estimated costs of
reclamation with regard to those affected lands in Otero County which aze now or may become subject to the
permit aze those amounts for the stated periods of time as set forth in the financial warranty, which maybe
amended from time to time to reflect revised estimates of said costs of reclamation.
WHEREAS, the Permittee hereby gives the Boazd a performance warranty pursuant to
Section 34-32-117(2) or Section 34-32.5-117(2) of the Act, and herein promises the Board that it will comply
with all applicable requirements of the Act with regard to those Affected Lands.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Pern3ittee hereby promises the Boazd that it will comply with all applicable
requirements of the Act and rules and regulations of the Boazd with respect to the Affected Lands.
ice of Office of Colorado
Mined Land Reclamation Ac[ive and Inactive Mines Geological Survey