2011-02-03_REVISION - M2000158 ‎(16)‎

• Permit No: M2000158
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 2/3/2011
• Doc Name: Adequacy Review #2 and #3
• From: Civil Resources, LLC
• To: DRMS
• Type & Sequence: AM2
• Email Name: JLE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

CIVIL RES97URCES,LLC
ENGINEERS & PLANNERS
January 18, 2011
Mr. Jared Ebert 1/
Environmental Protection Specialist
Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety
,
1313 Sherman Street, Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
RE: S & H Mine; DRMS File No. M-2000-158; Amendment 02, Adequacy Review #2 and #3
Dear Mr. Ebert,
Following is our response to your adequacy review letter dated April 20, 2010.
6.4.3 EXHIBIT C - Pre-mining and Mining Plan Map(s) of Affected Lands
1) Several corrections and additions will need to be made to the Exhibit C map. In order to avoid redundancy, the
necessary corrections are discussed in the Exhibit sections below.
So noted.
6.4.4 EXHIBIT D - Mining Plan
2) In response to item #9, the Division will extend the decision date to August 151h 2010 to give the applicant enough
time to obtain approval from the SEO for the Design Report for the proposed embankments.
The decision date is currently February 15, 2011. We have attached a Request to Extend the Decision Date to
February 28, 2011 in order to allow the maximum time for the SEO's approval prior to a potential MLRB hearing.
6.4.5 EXHIBIT E - Reclamation Plan
3) In reference to your response to item 16 and 17 of the first adequacy review, please explain how the Operator
intends on excavating material from the overburden borrow areas and not lowering the grade in the topography?
Will there be enough material to backfill these areas to the original grade adjacent to the floodway?
We are not currently proposing to borrow material from within the floodway, however, if some borrowing occurs it
will be replaced to a maximum grade equal to the original grade (i.e. no obstruction of floodway flow capacity).
4) The response to item 17 references the Permanent Erosion Control Plan submitted in Attachment D. However, the
information submitted in this attachment are the designs for the proposed groundwater drain, and does not address
the erosion control structures. Your response indicates several types of erosion control structures will be used
along the edge of the floodway. Please submit an Erosion Control Plan indicating when the various types of
erosion control structures will be utilized, and the specifications of these structures.
Permanent erosion control is proposed for installation as the above grade fill portion of the reclamation is
completed (i.e. when Cell A is built all erosion measures adjacent to this will be constructed, etc.). The proposed
measures are shown in Exhibit E1.
5) The current approved reclamation plan calls for fertilizing the re-vegetation areas. Does the operator intend on
following the current approved fertilizer plan?
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