_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1981017 ‎(136)‎

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CRYSTAL. VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ASSOCIATION, INC.
Robert Hagen
Director, Albuquerque Field Office
Office of Surface Mining, Suite 1200
505 Marquette Ave., N.W.
Albuquerque, N.M. 87102 PEC 3 /y 93
Re: Citizen Complaint concerning Coal Basin Mines ! MidContinent Resources
(c-81-017)
Dear Mr. Hagen.-
Pursuant to Sec. 517H and 521A of SMCRA, on behalf of the Crystal Valley En-
vironmental Protection Association, Inc., I am herewith making a citizen complaint
as follows:
The reclamation plan calls for mine roads, after final reclamation is
completed, merely to be narrowed but to be left wide enough to per-
mit motor vehicle traffic; this plan thus fails to maximize stabilization
of the watershed and would perpetuate erosion and degradation of
water quality. The alternative of closing and revegetating the roads,
which since 1988 has been repeatedly urged by the U.S.Forest Service
and others, has been rejected by the Co. Division of Minerals and
Geology. In a public meeting in Carbondale in Nov.1993, Steve
Renner, the head of the coal program of DMG, acknowledged that
from the standpoint of reclamation closure of the roads might be preferable
but claimed that the state was legally unable to change the plan..
Reclamation with out closure of thebads is seriousy flawed
both by failing to enhance restoration of the watershed and by
providing for motor vehicle access which is inconsistent with an-ticipated
post-mining uses of the public land in the area.
Thank you for your assistance in pursuing this very important matter.
el:c,Y'
e Mechau
for the CVEPA Board
Rt.#1 3542 Front St
Palisade, Co.81526
(tel. [phone] -dav