2010-08-12_REVISION - M1986079

• Permit No: M1986079
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 8/12/2010
• Doc Name: Response
• From: DRMS
• To: Lafarge NA, Inc.
• Type & Sequence: TR8
• Email Name: DB2
• Email Name: AJW
• 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]
August 12, 2010
COLORADO
D I V I S 10 N OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
Bill Ritter, Jr.
Lafarge North America Inc Governor
Attn: Ms Anne Best Johnson, AICP Mike King
11409 Business Park Circle, Suite 200 Executive Director
CO 80504
Longmont Loretta E. Pineda
, Director
RE: M & G Pit (Pollyanna Mann), DRMS File M-1986-079; Technical Revision # 8
Dear Ms. Johnson:
This letter is written in response to your letter dated July 1, 2010 requesting that Lafarge not be
required to submit an amendment to Permit M-1986-079 to fulfill the requirements for approval of
Technical Revision No. 8. As you know, upon receipt and review of TR-8, the Division intended to
require that this revision be re-submitted as an amendment. However, the letter requiring this change
was never mailed; therefore, Lafarge was never notified of this deficiency. Furthermore, since Lafarge
was not notified of this change and in fact not contacted with notice of any deficiencies within 30 days
of submittal of the revision, TR-8 was approved automatically. Contained in the automatic approval
letter for TR-8 was a requirement for Lafarge to make new application for submittal of the amendment.
Upon further review, I have determined that submittal of an amendment to fulfill the requirements of
TR-8 is not necessary at this time as the changes included were appropriately addressed through the
existing technical revision process.
However, with respect to the M&G Pit in general, there may still be some unresolved issues with
exposed ground water that could require the future submittal of a technical revision or an amendment
to this permit. In accordance with the Division's April 30, 2010 letter sent to all operators with exposed
ground water, depending on the existing status of those sites, there may be some compliance
requirements that must be addressed by April 30, 2011. Gaining compliance with the requirements
outlined in the Division's letter could trigger the need to modify the permit through submittal of a
technical revision or amendment to the permit. In light of the requirements outlined in that letter, the
M&G pit status should be reviewed to determine if additional permitting may be necessary.
Please contact me with questions at 303-866-3567 ext.-8150.
Sincerely, ly,
Antho . Waldron
Senior Environmental Protection Specialist
Cc: David Bird-DRMS
Office of Office of
Mined Land Reclamation Denver • Grand Junction • Durango Active and Inactive Mines