REP50769

• Permit No: C1996084
• IBM Index Class Name: Report
• Doc Date: 6/25/2007
• Doc Name: 2006 ARR Review Letter
• From: DRMS
• To: Peak Project Management
• Permit Index Doc Type: Annual Reclamation Report
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Depamnent of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: (303) 86rr3567
FAX: [phone]
June 25, 2007
Ron Thompson
Peak Project Management
34115 Co. Road 20.8
Trinidad, CO 81082
RE: 2008 ARR Review, Lorencito Canyon Mine, #C-96-084
Dear Mr. Thompson:
COLORADO
DIVISION OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
-&-
SAFETY
Bill Ritter, lr.
Governor
Harris D. Sherman
Executive Director
Ronald W. Cattany
Division Director
Natural Resource Trustee
The Division of Minerals and Geology has completed review of the 2006 Annual Reclamation
Report (ARR) for the Lorencito Canyon Mine, #C-96-084. The ARR map was also included with
the report and reviewed accordingly. Also included in the review were Tables ARR-1 and ARR-2
received on June 18, 2007 for the 2005 ARR. Please address each of these items as
necessary.
ARR Reoortino Form
The last three years of AR reporting forms were reviewed, including 2006. In 2004, the mine
reported a liability of 153.8 acres of disturbed land, of which 122.1 acres was backfilled and
graded and 31.7 acres were in long-term mining or reclamation facilities. Of the 31.7 acres, 4.9
acres (4.5 loadout and .4 service area) remained to be reclaimed. The remainder of the long-
term facility acres (26.8 acres) consist of roads and ponds and office area that will remain as
permanent features to support the post-mining land use.
The 2005 ARR correctly reported an addition of 1.4 acres of disturbance at borrow area #3 (BA-
3). This added 1.4 acres to the disturbed total, the long-term facility total, and the area yet to be
reclaimed total, resulting in 155.2 acres, 33.1 acres, and 6.3 acres, respectively.
The 2006 reporting form correctly reports no changes to the disturbed acres, backfilled and
graded acres, and long-term facility acres. However, Technical Revision #14 (TR-14) was
approved in 2006. This revision changed the post-mining land use for the coal loadout to an
industrial use, effectively eliminating the requirement for reclamation of the 4.5 acre area.
Therefore, while the long-term facility acres would remain the same, the acres subject to
reclamation but yet to be completed would drop by 4.5 acres to 1.8 acres (1.4 acres of the
topsoil borrow area #3 and .4 acres of the service area). Please change the value reported in
2006 for reclamation yet to be completed to 1.4 acres.
Tables ARR-1 and ARR-2 (2005)
On both tables, the number of acres reported for borrow area #3 is inaccurate. While 2.7
acres may have been approved for disturbance, only 1.4 was actually disturbed.
Reclamation reports deal with actual acres disturbed. Please change the acres for the
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