2011-04-27_PERMIT FILE - P2011003

• Permit No: P2011003
• IBM Index Class Name: PERMIT FILE
• Doc Date: 4/27/2011
• Doc Name: Adequacy review letter & reclamation bond estimate
• From: DRMS
• To: Grayling LLC
• Email Name: RCO
• 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 27, 2011
Karmen King
Grayling LLC
18050 Road G
Cortez, CO 81321
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D I V I S I ON OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
John W. Hickenlooper
Governor
Mike King
Executive Director
Loretta E. Pirleda
Director
Re: Upper Mountain Top, NOI No. P-2011-003, Adequacy Review Letter and Reclamation Bond Estimate.
Dear Ms. King,
Thank you for the last adequacy response letter you sent, that included information addressing the concerns listed in
the Division's March 21, 2011 letter. There are a few issues to discuss and commitments to make, which appear in
the paragraphs below.
The pad surface will be used for staging and storage, there is a pre-existing discharge from the portal, and the site is
near the headwaters of Sneffels Creek. As such, there will be a need to protect water quality from degradation
related to this prospecting project. This office is currently unaware of any specific USFS-required BMPs in that
regard. However, this office will require the prospector to provide or perform the following, at a minimum:
1. Containment and control of stormwater runoff from the pad surface that will be affected;
2. Containment and control of materials and fluids to be used and/or stored on the pad during prospecting;
3. Isolation of mineralization, prospecting materials and fluids from entering the Sneffels Creek drainage; and
4. Isolation of mineralization, prospecting materials and fluids from further degrading mine discharges.
Commitment to accommodating these conditions may require any or all of the following: perimeter berms or silt
fences along the crest of the pad or margins of the area to be affected, ditching or culverting to isolate and protect
portal discharge; double-walled tanks for onsite fluid storage or daily removal of fluids; tarping or daily removal of
ores; avoidance of casting or disposing of materials down the waste dump face; and offsite disposal of all site-
generated debris. Please commit to implementing these conditions.
Some of these items may be required under the CDPHE discharge permit or a USFS permit. Please provide copies of
any such requirements or permits.
Water quality sampling must continue, to establish a baseline for the portal discharge as well as to detect any adverse
impacts to surface water. The former sampling locations are acceptable for future sampling. Quarterly samples must
must include the full suite, and be taken for at least five consecutive quarters (if practicable, given the location), and
then no less than annually thereafter throughout the duration of prospecting. Please ensure that analyses are provided
in a timely manner to this office.
The USFS may require certain practices related to use of the road or disturbances to unpatented claim land. Please
ensure that no prospecting activity commences until USFS has issued approval for the activities. Please provide
copies of any such approvals.
Office of Office of
Mined Land Reclamation Denver • Grand Junction • Durango Active and Inactive Mines