PERMIT FILE - 9/3/2008, 9:18:30 AM-MR1

• Permit No: P2008043
• IBM Index Class Name: PERMIT FILE
• Doc Date: 7/21/2008
• Doc Name: Receipt of NOI ‎(non-confidential)‎
• From: DRMS
• To: Powertech ‎(USA)‎ Inc.
• Email Name: ACS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY f/
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
July 21, 2008
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COLORADO
D IV IS I ON OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
Mr. Richard Blubaugh
Powertech (USA) Inc.
5575 DTC Parkway, Suite 140
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
NON CONFIDENTIAL
Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor
Harris D. Sherman
Executive Director
Ronald W. Cattany
Division Director
Natural Resource Trustee
RE. Centennial Project, Receipt of Notice of Intent-Con idential Portions, File No. P-2008-043 ?-----
Dear Mr. Blubaugh:
The Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety (DRMS) has received your Notice of Intent to
Conduct Prospecting (NOI). Our initial review indicates that it is incomplete. Please address the following
items at your earliest convenience bearing in mind that if you have not addressed these items within sixty
days of the date of this letter the DRMS may terminate this NOI (rule 5. 1.3 of the Mineral Rules and
Regulations of the Mined Land Reclamation Board).
DRMS has implemented changes to the Mined Land Reclamation Act relative to confidentiality of NOIs
since Senate Bill 2008-228 (SB-228) was enacted on June 2, 2008. This letter addresses the portions of the
NOI held confidential under SB-228; you will also receive a review letter for the public portion of the NOI.
You have placed the details of the proposed ground water monitoring wells in the confidential section of the
NOI. Please provide your reasoning and rationale, in terms of SB-228, for excluding this information from
the public record. Regardless of whether or not the monitoring well information will remain confidential or
will become public, DRMS will require submittal for review and approval of standard operating procedures
(SOPs) for monitoring well construction and completion. It is anticipated that the monitoring wells proposed
in the NOI will be used to collect ground water information to support a reclamation permit application if
Powertech determines that the mineral deposit is an ore body. Idorder to properly collect information that
will be acceptable to DRMS if an application were to be forthcoming, you should provide, for review and
approval, SOPs for sampling the wells and analyzing the samples. DRMS recognizes that you have
previously provided the SOPs discussed in this paragraph, but this NOI must be a stand-alone document,
particularly given the statutory changes in SB-228 that have occurred since submittal of Powertech's other
NOI filed with DRMS.
At the time this letter is being written, DRMS is in receipt of various emailed SOPs. The email was sent by
Powertech's Michael Beshore following a teleconference held July 21, 2008 in which he was informed of the
basic content of this confidential section review letter and the public review letter sent under separate cover.
DRMS has not yet reviewed the emailed SOPs, and asks that hard copies also be sent under a cover letter
with an authorized Powertech signature. If the hard copy SOPS differ in any way from the emailed SOPs,
please state so in the cover letter, as DRMS hopes to streamline the ongoing review of the NO[ by beginning
the review of the emailed documents. Bear in mind that depending on your responses to this and to the public
review letter sent under separate cover, information relating to the ground water monitoring wells may
become public. If you believe that any portions of the SOPs may be held confidential under SB-228, then
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