2012-10-01_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - M1977451

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Mr. G. Russell Means October 1, 2012 Page 2 reclamation activities and other work, it did not exclude from the injunction and, accordingly, still does not authorize "exploration, drilling, [and] mining" on ULMP lands. See Colorado Environmental Coalition v. Office of Legacy Management, 2012 WL 628547 (D. Colo. Feb. 27, 2012). Cotter holds a DOE - issued mining lease for lease tract C- SR -11, which is subject to the District Court's October 18, 2011 injunction, as amended. Cotter is therefore relieved of any obligation to conduct exploration, drilling, and mining on lands covered by such lease. Under these circumstances, no additional active mining activities have occurred at the SR -11 (Ike No. 1) Mine during the period covered by your request. In numbered paragraph 2) of your January 24, 2012 letter, you do not request that Cotter provide additional information, since the Division has previously granted intermittent status for the SR- 11 (Ike No. 1) Mine. No additional information responsive to numbered paragraph 2) is therefore set forth in this letter. In numbered paragraph 3) of your January 24, 2012 letter, you request that Cotter provide to the Division: (a) "A detailed and specific narrative description of the condition of the operation at the time it entered [intermittent status], supplemented with maps; along with a detailed and specific narrative description of the current condition of the operation, supplemented with maps." (b) "If your Mine is a Designated Mining Operation ( "DMO "): any and all documentation necessary to comply with the EPP requirements associated with that legal designation...." (c) "A detailed and specific narrative description of your plans for resumption of mining." With respect to the requests set forth in subparagraph a), the condition of the "operation" when it entered intermittent status is set forth in a conversion application and mining plan that Cotter submitted to the Division in October 1990. In the mining plan, Cotter described the ore deposit and other aspects of the SR -11 (Ike No. 1) Mine. It also requested that the SR -11 operation be approved as an intermittent operation. On October 30, 1990, the Division approved the conversion application. The mining plan and the Division's approval letter are attachments to a letter, dated February 27, 1997, from Cotter to the Division of Minerals and Geology. Additional information on the condition of the SR -11 (Ike No. 1) Mine when it entered intermittent status is set forth in Cotter's annual reports dated October 18, 1989, April 23, 1990 (includes map), and January 29, 1991, and Cotter's letter to the Division dated February 6, 1991. The current condition of the "operation" is set forth in Cotter's application amendment, dated September 2012, for the SR -11 (Ike No. 1) Mine. A map of the SR -11 (Ike No. 1) Mine showing the status of the mine workings as of the time it was put into intermittent status is attached to this letter as Figure 1. A map of the SR -11 (Ike No. 1) Mine showing the current status of the mine workings is attached to this letter as Figure 2. Cotter considers Figures 1 and 2 to contain