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Varra Companies, Inc. <br />Office of Special Projects <br />8120 Gage Street Frederick, Colorado 80516 Telephone (970) 353-8310 Fax(970)353-4047 <br />8. Please list and locate on the applicable exhibit all structures that will be constructed on <br />the site (i.e., plants, offices, scale-house, recycling facilities, etc.) and provide their associated <br />dimensions and composition in order to accurately estimate the cost for removal in the <br />reclamation bond estimate. <br />During operations, any structures will be portable and not fixed, including those described by the <br />Office. While the attending structures are not known at this time, we will provide a revised map <br />and identify all planned structures and their locations under a Technical Revision, at which time <br />concerns for additional warranty may be attended to. We respectfully seek a conditional <br />approval of the plant location area at this time, respective of any subsequent Technical Revision. <br />Since the plants actually serve to provide construction materials for area infrastructure and <br />development, the potential remains for them to remain active subsequent to reclamation and <br />release of permit by the Office. Any plant or attending structures active subsequent to <br />reclamation as a potential industrial end-use within the area designated as shown on Exhibit C-2: <br />Extraction Map in the northern portion of Tract C. Any change in location or temporary <br />relocation to allow fill and return of plant activity at the existing location would be reflected in a <br />future Technical Revision to the permit at the time and circumstance require. In lieu of any <br />subsequent Technical Revision to the existing maps and permit documents, the plant would be <br />removed from the site and the lands below it extracted and reclaimed as prescribed in the permit <br />as the final area of extraction and reclamation. <br />9. Specify whether explosives will be used during mining per the requirements of Rule <br />6.4.4(1). <br />Explosives will not be used. The omission is inspired by how the law actually reads: `Specify if <br />explosives will be used...' Our prior understanding took this to mean you do not need to <br />comment unless you intend to use explosives. In the current age we also understand the need to <br />remove all doubt. <br />10. The Mining Plan states that the pit(s) will be dewatered to accommodate dry mining. <br />Please describe in detail the dewatering setup. Will there be dewatering trenches? How will <br />Tract C be dewatered and where will the discharge point be. <br />Once the pit floor is reached, dewatering trenches will be established along the bottom perimeter <br />to maintain positive flow to the pump. Discharge locations were shown for Tracts A and B, but <br />not for C. The dewatering of Tract C will require waters in Tract C to be piped to the dewatering <br />wells in place at Tract B or Tract A, and exit at the same discharge point. The explanation was <br />simply overlooked in editing the original submittal and trust this clarifies the concerns of the <br />Office. <br />11. The Mining Plan states that groundwater will be discharged into the seep ditch. Please <br />identify the owner(s) of the seep ditch. Also, provide consent to discharge into the seep ditch. <br />Varna Companies, Inc. correspondence of 30 June 2009 to the Colorado Office of Mined Land Reclamation 5 <br />(Office) in reply to Office correspondence of 12 May 2009 - Heintzelman Project - M2009-018.