2011-10-11_REVISION - M1981185

• Permit No: M1981185
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 10/11/2011
• Doc Name: Response to 6th adequacy letter to CN-01
• From: GreenbergTraurig for Wildcat Mining Corporation
• To: DRMS
• Type & Sequence: CN1
• Email Name: WHE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Mr. Wallace H. Erickson
Response to Sixth Adequacy
October 11, 2011
Page 17
• Appropriate Environmental Protection Facility
design required under Rules 6.4.21(10), (7) and
(13) for the Augmentation Pond.
o Prepare a technical memorandum and feasibility report
summarizing the results of the work described above;
o Submit revised design plans for Environmental Protection
Facility design for the Augmentation Pond, water
treatment design plans, and revised Exhibit L reclamation
cost information associated with such water treatment
design, as necessary, through the Technical Revision or
Amendment process; and,
o After obtaining DRMS approval through the Technical
Revision or Amendment process, proceed with remainder
of work plan.
Wildcat will delete any and all statements from the application alleging the
proposed operation is exempt from the requirements of Rule 6.4.21(13).
Adequacy Issue No. 11.
Pursuant to paragraph (3)(b) of the Joint Stipulation, approved and signed by the
Mined Land Reclamation Board on July 28, 2010, ground and surface water quality data
required under Rules 6.4.20(9) and (11) shall be collected subsequent to permit issuance.
The parties agreed that mining may not commence until the Applicant submits
appropriate and adequate hydrologic information to the Division and the Division
approves the information as a permit modification. Paragraph (3)(b) of the Joint
Stipulation clarifies that limited mining activities, which will not affect surface or ground
water quality, may occur subject to the Division's approval.
NOTE: Subsequent to the signing of the Joint Stipulation and prior to the filing of
CN -01, the Rules were updated and the reference to Rule 6.4.20(9) and (11) in the Joint
Stipulation now refer to Rules 6.4.21(9) and (11).
a. The Division had determined some of the proposed mining activities pose
minimal potential to affect surface or ground water quality. Such activities may
commence after the issuance of CN -01 and prior to the Division's approval of adequate
hydrologic information for surface and ground water. These activities are limited to the
following:
• Stabilization and reconstruction of illegal access road from County Road 124
to bridge;
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