2009-09-11_PERMIT FILE - M2009062 ‎(4)‎

• Permit No: M2009062
• IBM Index Class Name: PERMIT FILE
• Doc Date: 9/11/2009
• Doc Name: Adequacy Review
• From: DRMS
• To: Weld County
• Email Name: ECS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
September 11, 2009
COLORADO
D I V IS I ON OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor
Harris D. Sherman
Executive Director
Ronald
David Bauer - Weld County Public Works W. Catt,1 Division Director
or
1111 H Street Natural Resource Trustee
PO Box 758
Greeley CO 80632
Re: Weld County Pierce North Gravel Pit, File No. M-2009-062, 112 Construction Materials Reclamation
Permit Adequacy Review
Dear Mr. Bauer:
The Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety has completed its preliminary adequacy review of your 112
construction materials reclamation permit application. The application was called complete for review on September 2,
2009. All comment and review periods began on September 2, 2009. The decision date for this application is
December 1, 2009. Please be advised that if you are unable to satisfactorily address any concerns identified in this
review before the decision date, it will be your responsibility to request an extension of the review period. If there
are outstanding issues that have not been adequately addressed prior to the end of the review period, and no extension
has been requested, the Division will deny this application. In order to allow the Division adequate time to review
your responses to any adequacy issues, please submit your adequacy responses to the Division no later than one
week prior to the decision date (November 24, 2009).
Please note that any changes or additions to the application on file in our office must also be reflected in the public
review copy, which has been placed with the Weld County Clerk and Recorder.
The review consisted of comparing the application content with specific requirements of Rule 6.1, 6.2, 6.4 and 6.5 of
the Minerals Rules and Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for the Extraction of Construction
Materials. In general the application was substantially adequate; however, as with most applications there are a few
items that will require clarification of the existing information. Any inadequacies are identified under the respective
exhibit heading along with suggested actions to correct them.
APPLICATION FORM
After some discussion DRMS has determined that, based on the information currently in the application, "Developed
Water Resource" is not the appropriate classification for post mining land use. The pit created by the removal of the
sand and gravel will not be clay-lined to contain water, or surrounded by a slurry wall to isolate it from the underlying
aquifer. In addition, even though the pit is located on an intermittent stream channel, the site will be reseeded with
grasses when mining is complete, and is anticipated to be dry the vast majority of the time. After reviewing the
proposed reclamation plan, DRMS believes that a more appropriate classification for post-mining land use in this
instance would be the rangeland/wildlife habitat option(s). Please revise page 4 of your application form accordingly,
and reflect this modification in the application text were appropriate for consistency. Please note that no changes to
the actual reclamation plan configuration or specifics are required, this only a change to the post mining land use
classification.
Office of Office of
Mined Land Reclamation Denver • Grand Junction • Durango Active and Inactive Mines