1994-02-07_ENFORCEMENT - C1981017 (3)

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MI6CONTINENT RESOURCE! Ii4C. PRODUCERS OF THE FAMOUS COAL BASIN COKING COAL BOX 158 CARBONDALE, COLORADO 81623 MIO.CONTINENT RESOURCES.INC K, E HON 25 PLAINFIELD ROAD-SUITE 220 �� NILLOWBROO ILLINOIS 60521 (3 TELEPHONE TWX July 8, 1985 910 929 6894 TLX TLx � � s-oize Ms . Candace Thompson Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division C 423 Centennial Bldg. 1313 Sherman Street Denver, Colorado 80203 Re: Rill and Gully Plan, Coal Basin Mines : File No . C-017-81 Dear Candace : Following is our revised plan per Jeff Deckler 's comments : The Coal Basin mines have operated since 1956. The mine pads were constructed at 10, 000 feet , plus or minus, by down-sloping the material adjacent to the Coal seams . Various other mate- rial was down-sloped from 1956 to 1977, including trommel screen rock and road grading material . These outslopes are at the angle of repose, or approximately 1 to 1 slope, and have many rills and gullies . We believe, first , that these slopes are grandfathered and so are exempt from a rill and gully -plan; and second, when compared with the adjacent natural hill slopes they show approximately the same erosion pattern. Our present plan is to monitor our postmining stabilization test section (at No. 4 Mine) and evaluate possible postmining stabilization/ reclamation methods. This is a ten-year project along with our outslope vegetation test plot program and includes the entire mine road system. See Vol . 7, Chapter V, Page 21. 1 and old stipulations 22 and 26 plus new stipulations 6 and 8 . The rills and gullies associated with our old coal refuse pile and our present coal refuse pile and tunnel rock pile will be addressed in the following manner : Old Refuse Pile Portions of this pile date back to 1956 and are thus grand- fathered. Some of these old portions have been reclaimed while others have not . It will be our policy to continue reclamation on these old areas as time, money and technology permit .