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STATE OF COLORADO <br />DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY W -- -?-? <br />Department of Natural Rem ;«z <br />13.3 Sherman 5t.; Room 15 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />7 C O L O R A D O <br />Phcrtia: ?.303) 866-3561 r v t 51 O N <br />FAX: (303) 8.`x2-8 iG6 RECLAMATIONT <br /> M.I:N I NG <br /> <br /> SAE ETY` <br />Form 2 <br />Public information only BON; k:`t:=r, <br />For public filing Governor <br /> Harris G. Sherman. <br />Executive i m. - or <br />NOTICE OF INTENT TO CONDUCT PROSPECTING OPERATIONS <br /> <br />FOR HARD ROCKIMETAL MI <br />YE Runa!d Vy. Cananv <br />t <br />S i)i0,41n Director <br /> Natural Resccrc.r•'irustr, <br />GENERAL: <br />To conduct prospecting activities in the State of Colorado, a person or organization must file a Notice of Intent to conduct <br />Prospecting Operations (NOI or Prospecting Notice) and provide a financial warranty for the prospecting operations to the <br />Mined Land Reclamation Board (MLRB or Board). All prospecting operations must comply with the Colorado Mined Land <br />Reclamation Act, as amended (34-32-101 et seq. C.R.S.), and the Colorado Mined L.and Reclamation Board Hard <br />Rock/Metal Mines Rules and Regulations 2 CCR 407-1 and amendments to those rules ("Rules"). This NO[ form is for all <br />minerals except coal and construction materials. The Division shall determine (where there is a question) if an operation is <br />prospecting or mining. <br />The New Law: <br />Senate Bill (SB) 228 became law on. June 2, 2008. <br />SB 228 revised portions of C.R.S. 34-32-113 pertaining to confidentiality and filing requirements of <br />Prospecting Notices. <br />Certain aspects of.Prospecting Notices will no longer be confidential. <br />As revised, C.R.S. 34-32-11.3 (3) now requires, in part, that "All information provided to the Board in a <br />notice of intent to conduct prospecting or a modification of such a notice is a matter of public record subject <br />to the Open Records Act, Part 2 of Article 72 of Title 24, C.R.S., including, in the case of a modification., the <br />original notice of intent; except that information relating to the mineral deposit location., size,, or nature and, <br />as determined by the hoard, other information designated by ti7e operator as proprietary or trade secrets or <br />that would cause substantial harm. to the competitive position of the operator shall be protected as <br />confidential infomatior by the Board and shall not be a matter of public record in the absence of a written <br />release from the operator or until a Finding, by the Board that reclamation is satisfactory. Such information <br />designated-as exempt shall remain confidential until. a final determination by the Board". If the Board <br />determines that information is not confidential, the Division shall treat it as public information thirty (30) <br />days from the Board's written order. <br />C.R.S. 34-32-113 (9) now requires that the applicant provide the NOI in an electronic version in addition to <br />the paper form and that DBMS post on the Division's website the NOT upon submittal. Specifically, this <br />subsection states: `=Upon the submittal. of a notice of intent to conduct prospecting or a nodification of such a <br />notice the person submitting such notice or modification shall give an- electronic version of the notice; or <br />...__..-.-.._______....__..___._.__.._.___.______.___--------________...__-- <br />thrice - -. ,. _ - <br />Mined Linn Peclamatior- Oinla i <br />CIe!ivt:,r of<;riCiJuni:tsan 1r{tlal}j,0 <br />:?.%Fivsa ;nr? irtaCl2Ye+t11r?i'ti