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From: Mathews, Dan <br />Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:17 PM <br />To: Creeden, Paul <br />Cc: Romatzke, JT; Kaal, Kimberly; Boulay, Mike; Brown, Sandy <br />Subject: McClane Canyon Mine, Technical Revision 16 (New Coal Waste Pile and Associated <br />Facilities) <br />Greetings Paul, <br />I realize you are probably not in the office much this time of year, but I need to touch bases with <br />you (or other DOW staff as appropriate), regarding the referenced McClane Canyon Mine TRA 6. <br />Specifically, we need to get DOW comment regarding responses submitted by McClane Canyon <br />Mining LLC (MCM, formerly CAM Mining LLC), to previous DOW concerns identified in a letter of <br />August 19, 2008, from JT Romatzke to Michael Boulay. Concerns identified by DOW in that letter <br />focused on potential water quality impacts to East Salt Creek associated with mine water <br />discharge, and waste pile and sediment pond leachate, and the letter requested further analysis <br />of such potential impacts. <br />We summarized DOW's concerns in a letter of 9/19/08 to the operator (Adequacy Item No. 52), <br />and enclosed a copy of the letter, along with a request that DOW's concerns be addressed. We <br />received responses from the operator in a submittal package dated 10/23108, which the operator <br />indicates was concurrently submitted to Division of Wildlife. In the response submittal, the <br />operator included proposed amendments to Permit Appendix N [Probable Hydrologic <br />Consequences (PHC)...1, to address the DOW concerns of Adequacy Item 52, as well as PHC <br />refinements previously requested by DRMS in Adequacy Item 57. <br />Due to my original invovement in the matter, Mike Boulay asked that I coordinate with DOW. The <br />decision date for this technical revision has been significantly extended and we are attempting to <br />bring the remaining adequacy issues to resolution in a timely manner. If you have concerns with <br />the amended analyses and plan, please let me know as soon as possible. A meeting including <br />appropriate operator, DRMS, and DOW staff might expedite the process at this point, if DOW <br />does have remaining concerns. <br />Please contact me regarding this matter at your earliest convenience. <br />Thanks Paul <br />Daniel T. Mathews <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br />Grand Junction Field Office <br />101 South 3rd, Suite 301 <br />Grand Junction, Colorado 81501 <br />daniel.mathews@state.co.us <br />Phone (970) 242-5025 <br />FAX (970) 241-1516