2008-08-25_REVISION - M1980244 ‎(3)‎

• Permit No: M1980244
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 8/25/2008
• Doc Name: PAR-Fax
• From: DRMS
• To: CC&V
• Type & Sequence: AM9
• Email Name: BMK
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
August 25, 2008,
Mr. Gary Goodrich
Manager Environmental Resources
Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining. Co.
P.O. Box 191
Victor, Colorado 80860
COLORADO
D IV IS I ON OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor
Harris D. Sherman
Executive Director
Ronald W. Cattany
Division Director
Natural Resource Trustee
RE: Cresson Project; DBMS Permit # M-1980-244; Amendment-09; Preliminary Adequacy Review
Comments
Dear Mr. Goodrich:
The Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety has reviewed your Amendment # 9 (AM-09) application,
also referred to as Mine Extension Application, and has the following comments.
General Comments
A) The application for the most part appears to follow closely the previously approved Amendment #
8 (AM-08) application. It refers-to AM-08 approved submittals to explain most of the narrative. As
such, the Division assumes that the AM-08 volumes, as submitted to the DRMS and the County
Clerks and Recorder's Office in March 2000, were also available for the public to refer to in the event
there were questions about what was approved in AM-08. Without the AM-08 material, and
knowing what was approved in August 2000 by the Mined Land Reclamation Board over
objections, it would be difficult if not impossible for a reader to know exactly what was approved
and contrast the difference between this proposal and what was already approved. Did CC&V
provide additional copies of AM-08 volumes with AM-09 volumes to the County Clerks and
Recorder's Office?
Only small changes to the total affected area are proposed under this amendment (from 4184 acres
to 4199 acres). The total permit acreage of 5,847, as approved under AM-08, still remains in effect.
However, the Division cari t emphasize enough the need to have AM-08 volumes available to the
public since this amendment relies heavily on what is already approved under that amendment.
B) The current amendment application proposes the following changes:
1) Minor permit boundary changes in the Grassy Valley area.
2) Increase the overall affected areas by adding mining areas associated with the main Cresson,
Wild Horse and North Cresson.
3) Increase the East and Squaw Gulch overburden areas.
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