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DRMS Permit Index
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C1984067
IBM Index Class Name
REVISION
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10/6/2009
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Notification of TOJ
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STATE OF COLORADO <br />DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman St., Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 C O L O RA D O <br />D I V IS I ON OF <br />Phone: (303) 866-3567 RECLAMATION <br />FAX: (303) 832-8106 MINING <br /> <br />October 6, 2009 SAFETY <br />Kenneth W. Root & Kay K Kunert Bill Ritter, Jr. <br />2497 CR 207 Governor <br />Durango, Co 81301 Harris D. Sherman <br /> Executive Director <br />Re: Termination of Jurisdiction for the Coal Gulch Mine, DRMS File C-84-067 Ronald W. Cattany <br /> Division Director <br /> Natural Resource Trustee <br />Dear Sir or Madam <br />The Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (Division) is initiating the process of terminating its jurisdiction <br />over the reclaimed Coal Gulch Mine. The Coal Gulch Mine was an underground coal mine where mining activities were <br />most recently conducted under mining and reclamation permit C-84-067, which was revoked in 1988. The site is located in <br />La Plata County, Colorado, 4.5 miles west of the town of Durango, next to U.S. Highway 160 on the north side of the road. <br />The permit area is located on private and state lands in portions of NW'/NW'/, N'/2 SW'/aNW '/ Section 22, N'hNW'/a, <br />and NE % Section 21, and Section 16, all located in T35N, R10W, of the New Mexico Principal Meridian. Coal ownership <br />is private and state. The permit area encompassed 725 acres, of which 16.5 acres of land surface were disturbed. <br />The mining and reclamation permit number for this site was C-84-067. The site was permitted in 1984 by Peerless <br />Resources Inc. who disturbed 16.5 acres on the site in preparation for underground mining, but ceased operations prior to <br />excavating a portal and underground entries. Some coal was surface-mined when the coal seam was exposed. The Mined <br />Land Reclamation Board revoked permit C-84-067 in January 1988 and ordered forfeiture of the $140,000 reclamation bond <br />in September 1990. <br />The Division reclaimed the disturbed area on the Coal Gulch site in September 1994 using all of the funds from the forfeited <br />bond. Reclamation work included: backfilling as much of the exposed mine highwall as funds allowed, allowing natural <br />drainage from the existing gulches to pass through "French" drains at the foot of Coal Gulch, backfilling exposed coal <br />seams, topsoiling and revegetating the disturbed area, and regrading and revegetating for treatment of mine water discharge <br />from a portal on the site from a pre-law mine portal. The Division had the site sprayed for thistle in 2001. No additional <br />funds are available for site maintenance. <br />Successful achievement of reclamation of the site has been demonstrated during the last 15 years by: stability of slopes; <br />local successful revegetation of grasses, forbs, and shrubs; lack of noxious weeds on most of the site; minimization of <br />impacts to the hydrologic balance within the previously permitted area; and prevention of material damage to the hydrologic <br />balance outside of the permitted area. <br />Written comments, objections, and requests for an informal conference or a formal public hearing before the Colorado <br />Mined Land Reclamation Board may be submitted to the Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology at the address above <br />within 30 days of the site inspection that will be conducted for this termination of jurisdiction. If you have any questions, <br />comments, or concerns regarding this termination of jurisdiction, please contact the Colorado Division of Reclamation, <br />Mining and Safety at 1313 Sherman St, Room 215, Denver, Colorado, 80203 or call (303) 866-3567, extension 8128. <br />Sincerely, <br />7-kv-11 /cr. <br />Tom Kaldenbach <br />Environmental Protection Specialist <br />Certified Mail - Retum Receipt Requested, Article no. 7005 0390 0002 8281 8502 <br />Office of Office of <br />Mined Land Reclamation Denver • Grand Junction • Durango Active and Inactive Mines
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