PERMFILE134238

• Permit No: M2007012
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 3/7/2007
• Doc Name: Completeness & Notices
• From: DRMS
• To: Gregory Larson
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MIN ING AND SAFETY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203 C O L O R A D O

Phone: (303) 86Cr3567 DIVISION O F

RECLAMATION
FAx: [phone] MINING
- &-
SAFETY
April 11, 2007 Bill Ritter, jr.
Governor
Harris D. Sherman
Randy Schafer Executive Director

40586 County Road 2 Ronald W. Cattany
1 Division Director
Haxtun, CO 80731 I Natural Resource Trustee
RE: Adequacy Review Comments -Larson Pit, Regular 112 Application
Class: Permit File No. M-2007-012
Dear Mr. Schafer:
Listed below aze adequacy review comments on the above-captioned Regular 112 Application
for 68 permitted acres ~ The decision date for your application is scheduled for June 5, 2007.
Therefore, I would appreciate a response from you on or before May 11, 2007. (Your response
should include two (2)~ copies). Any public comments that we receive on your application during
the interim will be forwarded to you. Please be advised that your conversion application maybe
deemed inadequate and maybe denied on June 5, 2007 unless the following adequacy review
items are addressed to the satisfaction of the Division.
6.4.4 EXHIBIT D -
1. Applicant has specified that the operation will not create an adverse impact to surface and/or
groundwater systems. The Mine Plan and Reclamation Plan Maps show the location of Sandy
Creek as being within the center of area(s) to be excavated. In conformance with Rules 6.4.4,
6.4.5, and 3.1.6, please specify the process of how the operator will mine through a meandering
stream channel and be able to maintain the function and form ofthe stream channel in Areas 1- 3
throughout the mining and reclamation phases of the operation, ie: how will the location and
dimensions of the channel and banks remain intact. At a minimum, the Applicant will need to
provide the following information:
• A representative cross section of the stream channel for each azea to be mined which
depicts the bank heights and slopes as well as width and configuration of the channel bed.
• A discussion oflhow the boundaries of the channel (from right top bank through left top
bank) will be identified prior to mining and re-established during reclamation.
• A discussion oflthe channel bed elevation, or slope from the upstream limit of extraction
Once of Office of
Mined Land Reclamation Denver Grand Junction • Durango Active and Inactive Mines