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~:_. o~ FLATIRON ' ~ CQHP,4N/£S iii i~~iiii~i~iu~~i WALDEN COAL COMPAI~(Y POST OFFICE 80X 229. BOULDER. COLORADO 80.306 PHONE: (30.?) 444-2151 September 11, 1989 i"r rriq ~ N ~, . Ms. Cathy Begej Mined Land Reclamation Division 215 Centennial Building 1313 Sherman Street Denver, CO 80203 SrP 1? 1989 nni~t~ LF,~.;:: RECLAMAi'tQN ~'~"•r~n, Dear Cathy: This letter is in response to your letter dated August 17, 1989 concerning the certification of certain documents required to complete a bond release request. All the maps submitted by Walden Coal Company as a part of its bond release request have been certified as required by section 2.10 of the Regulations of the CMLRB. Further all of the information required by the CMLRB regulations is contained on the maps. It is my opinion that you are requiring Walden Coal to submit documents, not maps, which contain information about the post mining topography and the post mining drainage plan. The CMLRD has been provided with a certified post mining topographical map. You are requesting that someone author a statement concerning whether the post mining topography as built and post mining topography as"approved are consistent. I find no regulatory support for requesting such a statement or certification. Moreover the CMLRD has gone to the expense and effort of surveying the Bourg property and should know that the planned and as built post mining topography are comparable. The second certification you have requested is for the "drainage" plan of the Bourg property. I have two concerns with this request. First, I find no regulatory support that a "drainage" plan be certified. Walden Coal's sediment control plan contains no engineered structures, such as dams or ponds, which do require certification. Second, at no time in the long, tedious process of reviewing and approving the sediment control plan for the Bourg property did the CMLRD inform or advise Walden