2010-04-15_REVISION - C1994082 ‎(3)‎

• Permit No: C1994082
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 4/15/2010
• Doc Name: Incompleteness Letter
• From: DRMS
• To: Seneca Coal Company
• Type & Sequence: TR48
• Email Name: DTM
• Email Name: SB1
• 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]
April 15, 2010
Roy Karo
Seneca Coal Company, LLC
37796 Routt County Road 53
P.O. Box 670
Hayden, CO 81639
Re: Yosst Mine (Permit No. C-1994-082)
Technical Revision No. 48 (TR48)
Aspen/Woody Plant Density Standards
Dear Mn Karo:
COLORADO
DIVISION OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor
James B. Martin
Executive Director
We have received your application for a technical revision to your permit to conduct coal mining in Colorado. Our initial
review indicates that all preliminary items required by Rule 2.08.4(5) have not been submitted. Thus, your application is
Incomplete for the purposes of filing as of April 14, 2010.
Specifically, we find that the application does not contain sufficient information and explanation to allow for a thorough
evaluation of compliance. Information requested in the following three items will need to be provided in order for the
application to be deemed Complete.
1. The woody plant density standard proposed would retain an "overall" standard of 200 woody plant stems per acre, but
would limit the requirement for a "concentrated aspen/ woody plant planting area" standard to six fenced shrub plots
(concentrated aspen/woody plant sites) shown on Exhibit 20-2, Postmining Topography Map. It is not clear why the
revision references the Postmining Topography Map, rather than Exhibit 22-1, Postmining Vegetation Map. Exhibit
22-1depicts three aspen establishment sites designated "to be fenced', plus three upland shrub planting areas
designated "to be fenced", and one Mesic drainage tree and shrub site "to be fenced" (a total of seven, rather than six
fenced planting sites). At least one of the aspen sites depicted on Exhibit 22-1 has not yet been established (due to
remaining reclamation grading to be completed in the lower Pond 012 drainage).
Specific locations to which the proposed "concentrated aspen/woody plant site" standard would apply should
be defined by reference to Map Exhibit 22-1, which includes proposed, as well as existing woody plant
establishment sites. Revision of narrative and Exhibit 22-1 is warranted to provide for the necessary
clarification. The revised map should depict the current configuration of existing planting sites, should list date
of planting for the various shrub and tree planting sites that have been established, and planned year of
planting for those sites that have not yet been established. Explanation should be provided regarding changes
with respect to number, type, and extent of woody plant establishment sites as compared to the currently
approved version of Exhibit 22-1.
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