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Savage and Savage Environmental <br />practical solutions for environmental issues <br />461 O Haystack Drive 970 674 8080 telephone <br />Windsor, Colorado 80550 970 6748088 facsimile <br />savageandsavage~earthlink.net <br />RECEIVED <br />.. OCT 19 Zp~ i,~~ ~~ ~ ~,.~,; <br />IW~w~~ v~ t~c~1G~iV911Ui1, <br />ivision of Rec~amat~in and Safety <br />D 9 <br />Mining and Safety ~® <br />October 8, 2007 <br />Mr. Ronald W. Cattany, Director <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />RE: Request for Vacation of Notice of Violation CV-2007-005, issued to the <br />Oakridge Energy Carbon Junction Mine (DBMS file C-92-080) <br />Dear Director Cattany: <br />First, I would like to express my appreciation and thanks to the staff, especially Dan <br />Hernandez, Tom Kaldenbach, and Wally Erickson for their concern and cooperation with <br />regard to extending abatement deadlines once they were awaze of my hospitalization. <br />Their immediate extension of the abatement deadlines and willingness to grant further <br />extensions as necessary to accommodate my health is greatly appreciated. Thankfully, I <br />am only slightly worse for wear, and am transitioning into my normal work load. <br />With regard to Notice of Violation (NOV} CV-2007-005, I am requesting that you vacate <br />the NOV based on the following information I obtained upon further investigation of the <br />basis of the NOV. <br />Carbon Junction Mine/Ewing Mesa Pit # 1 History <br />I feel some history is appropriate prior to presenting the basis for the request. <br />The Carbon Junction Mine was initially permitted by Pueblo Coal Company in 1981 and <br />at the time I was one of the Reclamation Specialists tasked with reviewing the permit. <br />From 1981 through 1991, I or my staff were the lead specialists responsible for oversight <br />and compliance at the mine and were very familiar with the mine operations, facilities, <br />and permit document. In 1992, the Cazbon Junction Mine was re-permitted by Oakridge <br />Energy, parent company and successor to Pueblo Coal. Additionally, Durango <br />Construction Company of Durango, Colorado permitted an aggregate extraction <br />