PERMFILE134705

• Permit No: M1989116
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/18/1989
• Doc Name: CITY OF COLO SPRINGS FN M-89-116
• From: US DEPT OF AGRICULTURE
• To: LRD
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Onited States Forest Pike and San Isabel Pikes Peak Ranger District
Department of Service National Forests 601 South Weber
Agriculture Comanche and Ciiarron Colorado Springs, CO 80903
National Grasslands [phone]
Reply to: 2730
Date: December 14, 1989
Mined Land Reclamation Division
Attn: Michael J. Boyd, Reclamation Specialist ~ E C E ~ V E
215 Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, CO 80203-2273 DEC 181989
MINED LAND
RE: City of Colorado Springs, File No. M-89-116 RECLAMA3'ION DIV1810N
Dear Mr. Boyd:
As you may be aware, the Pikes Peak Highway is property of the United States,
administered by the U.S. Forest Service. The highway is operated and
maintained, but not owned, by the City of Colorado Springs under the authority
of a special use permit issued by the U.S. Forest Service. Under the terms of
the special use permit, the City is required to operate and maintain the
highway and associated facilities for public use at it's expense in lieu of
paying a fee to the United States. In effect, the City is acting as a partner
of the U. S. Forest Service and operating the road on behalf of the U.S. Forest
Service.
The site of the proposed mining is National Forest System land and the
minerals to be extracted are property of the United States. The United States
is not an adjoining landowner, but the actual landowner. The primary purpose
of the proposed borrow pit is to provide mineral material to maintain the
Pikes Peak Highway, but the U.S. Forest Service may also use the pit for other
minor projects from time to time. Such use would be coordinated with the
City.
In addition to the County and State permits, the City is required to obtain
approval from the Forest Service to use the pit. We plan to authorize this
use as a part of the new Pikes Peak Highway Recreation Corridor special use
permit which hopefully will be issued early next year. If the new highway
permit is not issued as soon as planned, a temporary permit will be issued to
authorize use of the borrow pit.
We have been working with the City for several months in evaluating this new
pit location, but have not fully reviewed their application to the State. We
understand that the State permit will be issued subject to such additions or
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