2007-11-23_PERMIT FILE - M2007044

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~I~~~ ._.: ~. November 19, 2007 ~av ~ 0 207 Division of i~eciamation, Mining and Safety Gl ~~'( L//~I~J ~~~ ~~ r~ov 2 ~ 200 ; / ,/,/,y, GRAND ,flan;.; 3 r,.~r•. ~-;~:1.0 OFFBCE 11 ~~ [~14`9vlON t~F ENERGY FUELS RESOURC~~ATioN ~L~iiNii'~r ~: SAFETY CORPORATION Mr. D. Scott Gerwe United States Department of the I erior Bureau of Land Man_ agement 2815 HRoad - Grand Junction, CO 81506 / / Re: Response to Commends/, Plan of Operations, Whirlwind Mine ~ - ~-c~c~ 7? ~ o ~~~ Dear Scott: Energy Fuels Resources Corporation (Energy Fuels) has reviewed your request for additional information dated October 17, 2007 and will revise the Plan of Operations to address your concerns. We are still waiting on comments from the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (DBMS) and would prefer to update both the Plan of Operations and the DBMS 112d Reclamation Plan at the same time. Although the Plan of Operations and 112d Reclamation Plan are formatted differently, they are consistent with each other and we want to keep it that way to the extent possible. We believe that if we revise each plan at the same time in response to both sets of comments, the two plans will continue to be consistent with each other and accurately represent our plans for the project. We have listed your questions in italics and our responses in regular font below. The revisions to the Plan of Operations will be submitted at a later date once we receive and review comments from the DBMS. The revisions will be submitted as replacement pages. For ease of reference, we will also include one set of replacement pages with all of the revisions highlighted. 1. Freshwater source (Page 5 - 23). This indicates that the freshwater source would be nearby springs or wells. However, the recent bulk sampling NOI says DP Spring will not be used. Specify your likely freshwater source. Completion of a potable water well at the project site is not an option because the nearest ground water in the lower Salt Wash formation is of poor quality and the cost to sink a deep well is prohibitive. To date, Energy Fuels has trucked its water to the project from its offices in Nucla. We plan to contact the owners of the water rights for nearby DP Spring (K. Hubbard and J. Hendricks) to see if we can purchase water from them once -z7~-r~y I~t~~'~~ l~c~~~~t;~.•c~;; ~'E~1~~~1c>r~iEi~~~l ~~;} t lt~~r.~tl ~:>~~#~v~s,rc! ~uitc ii1)tl [ .~~C~cti=v„~-~~~I, £'%i ~~O1?f~ 6`E~t_~r~c° ~f~..4)7~-'? i=t{)