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Third Adequacy Letter, Amended CN-01 11 <br />May Day Idaho Mine Complex <br />roads. Please either designate the exploration roads as permanent roads and provide <br />the engineered road designs, or designate the exploration roads as temporary features <br />and provide complete reclamation plans that include pulling up the fill slope for <br />replacement into the original cut, essentially restoring the approximate original contour. <br />Exhibit E - Reclamation Plan, Rule 6.4.5 <br />25. The proposed drill pads and associated access roads are located in steep slope areas and <br />the construction of such structures may result in significant cut and fill slopes. Please <br />demonstrate how the access roads and drill pads will be reclaimed to a stable <br />configuration. Please provide maps with the reclamation plan illustrating the final <br />configuration of the drill pads and their associated access roads. <br />26. Regarding reclamation of the illegal access road, the amended application states, <br />"...excavated excess material will be used to blend the topography to approximate <br />original contour (Exhibit 6.5)..." Please note the Division interprets "approximate <br />original contour" literally, which would include replacement of materials previously <br />excavated during construction of the road, refilling the road cut to the approximate <br />original contour. Please clarify what is intended. Please provide a map with the <br />reclamation plan illustrating the final configuration of the reclaimed access road <br />corridor. <br />27. The application states the mill facility and steel sets at May Day 1 level will be <br />dismantled to the maximum extent possible. Please clarify, "maximum extent possible." <br />If there exists a safety hazard in removing the inner most steel sets, affixed to or under <br />cutting the native ground of the highwall, please state such. Otherwise, please revise <br />the reclamation plan to indicate total dismantlement of the mill facility, steel sets and <br />rubblization of the concrete floor and foundation for the mill facility. The Division <br />cannot approve burial of intact surface structures as permanent reclamation. The <br />Division considers the mill building to be a surface structure, with or without a soil <br />cover. <br />28. Regarding compliance with the ground water regulations, please see the review <br />memorandum prepared by Division staff member David Bird. Please address the <br />adequacy issues identified by Mr. Bird in his attached review memorandum, dated May <br />3, 2011. <br />Exhibit H - Wildlife, Rule 6.4.8 <br />29. Please ensure the application for CN-01 includes a copy of the recommendations from <br />the Colorado Division of Wildlife, as required under Rules 6.4.8(2) and 6.4.21(1). If the <br />Applicant believes the application already contains copy of the recommendations from <br />the Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW), please clarify the date of the DOW document <br />and specify the location of the document within the application materials.