2009-08-17_REPORT - M1999006

• Permit No: M1999006
• IBM Index Class Name: REPORT
• Doc Date: 8/17/2009
• Doc Name: Annual Fee/Report/Map
• From: Sand Land, Inc.
• To: DRMS
• Permit Index Doc Type: Annual Fee/Report
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Varna Companies, Inc.
Office of Special Projects
1431 Fast 16th Street Greeley. Colorado 80631 Telephone [phone] Fax[phone]
AUGUST 2009 ANNUAL REPORT - M99-006- Kurtz Resource Recovery & Land
Development Project
Status of operations has changed and an updated map is included with this submittal. In
2008-9, Extraction continued in Tracts D and E, and as indicated in last years annual
report, involves the entire Tract area. Extraction commenced in the SouthEast quarter of
Tract C and continues in a NorthWesterly direction, facilitated by a short conveyor run to
the wet plant in Tract B. Extraction in Tracts D, E, and C will continue through 2009-10.
Extraction in the Southern half of Tract E is essentially exhausted and continues in the
Northern half. As reported previously, a small dry plant has been set up within the upper
bench of the central area of Tract D with extraction continuing along the center of the
tract. The western portion recycles plant water, as reflected in previous annual report
maps and iterated in the updated map included with this submittal. The remaining wash
fines act as fill to expand developable land over the extracted basin perimeter.
Stockpile activities occupy the remainder of Tract F and the balance of lands in Tract B.
Tract A is idle and filled with wash fines. There is no planned reclamation beyond
concurrent slopping and re-soiling reported and shown in previous annual reports and
continuing as possible along completed portions of Tract D, primarily along the Southern
boundary. Finished slopes are being stabilized temporarily with oats until final seeding
efforts commence once continuity along slope aspects is established. Weed management
will proceed according to the June 2005 Technical Revision.
Also shown is an active Army Corps of Engineers constructed seep segment. The permit
will allow Waters of the United States to be connected to two existing seeps, while
allowing the seep presently dividing Tract D from E and Tract C from F to be extracted.
This will facilitate the return to concurrent grading activity of finished slopes.
Forthcoming are revisions to allow the introduction of conveyed materials from a new
extraction permit area, and the opening of a new Tract G, within Kurtz, for continued
extraction. Also shown are delineated wetlands from work perfomed in 1999 to the
present respective of wetland avoidance and permitting.
Oil and gas lines have been relocated. The line shown in green on the included map has
been relocated between Tracts B and C, and the present location will be updated in a later
revision to the permit. The red oil and gas line is the approximate location of previously
existing lines relocated to the approximate location of the blue line running along the
western perimeter of the permit boundary.
Since the site has recently been inspected by the Office of Mined Land Reclamation,
areas of disturbance and conditions respective of financial warranty determination will be
updated during the financial warranty review. This updated information will be reflected
on future annual report maps and text.