2010-11-29_REVISION - M1983194

• Permit No: M1983194
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 11/29/2010
• Doc Name: Amendment application package AM-03
• From: DRMS
• To: Natural Soda. Inc.
• Type & Sequence: AM3
• Email Name: THM
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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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]
November 29, 2010
Bob Warneke
Natural Soda, Inc.
3200 CR 31
Rifle, CO 81650
DEC 0 2 2010
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COLORADO
D I V I S I ON OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor
Mike King
Executive Director
Loretta E. Pineda
Director
Re: Nahcolite Project, Permit No. M-1983-194, Receipt of Incomplete 112 Hard Rock/Metal Mining
Reclamation Permit Amendment Application Package, AM - 03
Dear Mr. Warneke:
On November 29, 2010;, the Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety received your 112 Hard Rock/Metal Mining
Reclamation Permit Amendment Application package for the Nahcolite Project, Permit No. M-1983-194. Preliminary
review of the information received determined that the following items must be received before the Division can consider
your application as being; submitted and technical review can begin:
EXHIBIT A - Legal Description (Rule 6.4.1): The legal description must identify the affected land and be
wholly adequate for field location of the property. It can be in the form of metes and bounds survey or a
description by reference to township, range and section to at least the nearest quarter quarter section. Where
applicable, the street address or lot numbers may be used. The legal description referenced in Exhibit A
refers to the legal description that was stated in Exhibit A of Amendment 2 which describes the total area
contained within the four sodium leases is 8,358.14 acres. The application submitted for Amendment 3
proposes a total acreage of 8,233 acres. Please submit an accurate legal description that meets the
requirements of Rule 6.4.1.
EXHIBIT L - Reclamation Costs (Rule 6.4.12): The current estimated reclamation cost only accounts for a
total disturbance of 62.52 acres. The proposed total affected acreage is 260 acres; please provide all information
necessary to calculate the costs of reclamation. The information must be submitted and broken down into the
various major phases of reclamation. You must provide sufficient information to calculate the cost of
reclamation that would be incurred by the state.
EXHIBIT U - Designated Mining Operation Environmental Protection Plan (Rule 6.4.21): You must
provide information sufficient to demonstrate that an Environmental Protection Plan is not required to address
proposed or permitted activities that do not involve, affect, or influence the storage, handling or disposal of the
designated chemicals and do not disturb toxic or acid-forming materials, and that do not cause, or have the
potential to cause, generation of acid mine drainage. In order to demonstrate that Exhibit U is not applicable to
permit M-1983-194 please sample the recovered "pregnant" nacholite solution that is recovered during the
mining process. The list of parameters to be sampled for is enclosed with this document.
Your application will not be considered submitted until the information listed above is received and found sufficient to
begin our review. A decision date will be established 90 days from the date of receipt of all of the requested information.
Additionally, if you have already published notice you will need to republish notice, after the Division considers the
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