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To: <br />Wednesday 29 June 2011 <br />From: Varra Companies, Inc. <br />Bradford Janes, Forester <br />Dear Michael: <br />6.3.4 Exhibit L — Reclamation Costs <br />Varra Companies, Inc. <br />Office of Special Projects <br />8120 Gage Street Frederick, Colorado 80516 Telephone (970) 353 -8310 Fax (970) 353 -4047 <br />Michael Cunningham, E.P.S. <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety <br />Office of Mined Land Reclamation <br />1313 Sherman St., #215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />Subject: M- 2010 -049 Western Sugar Reclamation Land Development Project — Reply <br />to the Colorado Office of Mined Land Reclamation (OMLR) Preliminary Adequacy <br />Review correspondence of 21 June 2011. <br />For greater continuity and ease of reference, we have iterated your comments <br />necessitating a reply according to its respective item, iterated in a graphical box, with <br />our comments in blue following: <br />1. The Applicant has proposed using the same unit rates that were used in the Kurtz <br />Resource Recovery & Land Development Project (M- 1999 -006) to determine the <br />cost to dewater the pits at the Western Sugar Reclamation Land Development <br />Project. The pumping rates for the Kurtz site were approved because the Operator <br />was able to demonstrate that a pump and associated infrastructure was in place at <br />1 <br />