PERMFILE127819

• Permit No: M2000113
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 11/3/2000
• Doc Name: ROARING FORK RESOURCES APPLICATION FOR MAMM CREEK SAND & GRAVEL PIT
• From: SCHMUESER GORDON MEYER
• To: DMG
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Department of Natural Resources
3<
1317 Sherman 8t., Room ? ~ 5
D i v I s I o N o r
Denver, Colorado 80?03
Phone. [phone] MINERAL S
FAX: [phone] ~ "
November 29, 3000 GEOLOGY"
REC LA MATIOW'~
MINING•$AFET'i
Mr. Jeffrey S. Simonson P.E. s u o..e~,
Schmueser Gordon Meyer, Inc. Governor
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Glenwood Springs, CO 31601 Etec°"'z Do-"'or
nnchael B. Lone
Dwnro~ Dbeaor
RE: Roaring Fork Resources, lVlamm Creek Application No. hI-2000-113
Dear Mr. Simonson
[n response to your letter received on November 3, 2000 on behalf of the City of Rifle, concerning the Mamm
Creek permit application the Division is providing the following information.
I.) The Division is in the process of reviewing the application and has prepared two adequacy
review documents concerning Hydrologic Issues and Geomorphic Stability Issues. Additional
issues concerning wildlife, threatened and endangered species and the heron rookery will be
addressed by the Division. Copies of our two adequacy review documents are enclosed. The
Division may have other adequacy issues depending on the answers that are received from the
applicant.
In response to item 1 in your letter you mention that you anticipate that Roaring Fork Resources
will need to acquire all of the listed permits prior to any approvals from the Division of
Minerals and Geology (the Division). Please note that the Division and the Mined Land
Reclamation Board (MLRB only have authority to regulate mining and reclamation activi[ies
and not other permits or approvals regulated and enforced by other government agencies.
The MLRB regulations only require the applicant to list other permits and licenses required for
its mining operation. See Rule 6.3.6. However, it is the operation of the laws governed by
other governmental agencies that may require the applicant to acquire additional approvals or
permits. The applicant need no[ acquire these approvals or permits prior [o issuance of a mining
reclamation permit.
In response to item 3 of your fetter, the "Colorado Land Reclamation Act for the extraction of
Construction Materials" 3d-32.5-10] etc seq, under 3d-32.5-I l7(4)(a) states "The Board shall
prescribe the amount and duration of financial warranties, taking into accoun[ the nature, extent,
and duration of [he proposed mining operation and the magnitude, type, and estimated cost of
planned reclamation." In addition 34-32.E-I l7(4)(al states in part "A financial warranty shall
be sufficient to assure the completion of reclamation of affected lands..." The Act in 3a-32.~-
103 defines "Affected Land" as "The surface of an area wi[hin the Slate where a mining
operation is being or will be conducted, which surface is disturbed as a result of an operation."
The act does not make any provision for bonding for off-si[e (downstream propenies) impacts.
However. Section 34-32.x-116(4)(h) does require that "Disturbances to the prevailing
hydrologic balance of the affected land and the surrounding area and to the quality and quantity
of water in surface and groundwater systems, both during and after the mining operation and
during reclamation, shall be minimized." The Division will take appropriate measures to