PERMFILE125335

• Permit No: M1999117
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 3/1/2000
• Doc Name: COLO GRAVEL PRODUCTS INC FN M-1999-117 NEW APPLICATION FOR 110 PERMIT WRITTEN RESPONSES TO OPER NOTI
• From: DMG
• To: WALTER L BAKER
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Denver, Colorado 80203
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March 1, 2000

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GEOLOGY
RECLAMATION
MINING•SAFETY
Bill Owens
Governor
Greg E. Walther
Execwive Dveaor
Walter L. Baker ftichael B long
213 W. Randolph Division Director
Enid OK 73701-4006
Re: Colorado Gravel Products Inc., File M-1999-I 17, New Application for 110 Permit, Written
Responses to Operator's Notices.
Dear Mr. Baker,
Thank you for the time and expense that went into the written responses you have provided regarding the
above-named application. These were received by the Division on 2/15/00 and 2/24/00. I will combine
my comments about all pertinent and substantive items from your two letters in this one letter.
The applicant initially mailed and published notices which incorrectly stated the post-mining land use as
"RL," which you so cleazly pointed out could have been misinterpreted in many ways. For your
information, I will clarify that RL was an abbreviation for "rangeland." By the way, yours was not the
only communication we received which asked what RL meant.
The applicant proposes to leave an unmined buffer strip around the perimeter ofthe site, mine no deeper
than 25 feet, and slope the sidewalls at 3:1 gradients, all this with an eye toward providing stability of the
site. If this is actually performed as proposed, you probably have little to Fear about your property falling
into the gravel pit. The site will be periodically inspected as part of our monitoring program, partly to
ensure such offsite damage does not occur.
Your request to be notified six weeks prior to the conclusion of mining will have to be arranged between
you and the operator, since we only require that the operator notify the surface owner of the affected land
and the county commissioners, not the adjoining landowners. I am sorry that I will not be able to honor
that request.
Apart from the various questions and points you make in your letters, I do not see any stated objections to
this application. We consider all adverse public comment of a permit application quite seriously.
However, please be aware that this agency does not require written responses from persons who were
notified during the application period for a new permitted gravel pit. Though you are free to provide such
responses, and this office duly responds to such, please do not feel that there is a burden being imposed on
you or others to provide written responses.