2008-08-08_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - M1985023

• Permit No: M1985023
• IBM Index Class Name: GENERAL DOCUMENTS
• Doc Date: 8/8/2008
• Doc Name: Follow-up & clarification of the record
• From: Luke J Danielson
• To: DRMS
• Email Name: SSS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

AUG-08-2008 08:07AM FROM-DIU RECLAMATION MINING & SAFETY [phone] T-230 P.006/007 F-111
NO pP .R,A71ONS IN 2006 i
dated September 7, 2005, the inspe for states, 'The site does have
in the Inspection deport,
intermittent operation status, and has not:been active in some time."See exhibit G.
i
NO 113PERA11ONS IN 2007
In response to Final Notice dated June 2, 2008, Mr. Hollen4eclc states, "No new material was moved in
2oo7." See exhibit H. I
We have requested the public file on the Hollenbeck mine. Iri searching the files we uncovered no
evidence that the mine hod any operations in the lost decade.
No notice of temporary cessation has been filed with the Board. Under C.R.S. 34-32.5-103(11)(h), an
operator intending temporaryl to cease production for 180 days or more is required to file "a notice
with the board stating the reasons for nonpraduction, a plan for the resumption of production, and the
measures taken to comply with reclamation." No plan has be I ensubmitted and no due diligence
measures have been taken to comply with reclamation as rewired under C.R.S. § 34-32.5-116(q)(1).
AS noted above and evidenced in the attached materials, no operations have taken place on the
Hallenbeck mine in well over five yea r5. Under C:R.S. § 34-32i.5-103, if production has not been resumed
within fiv ears after the date production ended, the operator mustfile "a report with the board
requesting an extension of the period of temporary cessation lof production stating the reasons for the
continuation of nonproduction and those factors necessary to, and the plops for, resumption of
production."
Finally, "in no case shall temporary cessation be continued fo i more than ten years without terminating
the operation and fully complying with the reclamation requirements of this article." C.R.S. § 34-32.5-103
(11) (c) (emphasis supplled). In addition to Mr. Hollenbeck's i wn statements, the public file provides no
evidence of the Hallenbeck mine operating for at least the last ten years.
The operation must therefore be terminated, under C.R.S. § 34-32.5-103 (11) (c). Anv Further oo rations
at this site would also be in violation of C;R.S, § 34-32.5-103 (ill) (c).
We therefore request the Board terminate Permit No. M-1905-023, and ordering reclamation of the
site, for the following reasons:
• failure to provide notice of temporary cessation, a- plan for resumption of production, and the
measures taken to comply with reclamation; i
• failure to file a report with the board requesting anylextension of the temporary cessation that
states the reasons for nonproduction and those factors necessary to and the plans for
resumption of any production;
Failure fully to comply with the reclamation requirements of Article 34 after terminating
operations for more than 10 years; and
• Failure to pursue reclamation with due diligence_