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f0 R. ND Nov. 9, 2012 Tn7E- 1.11 To: Mr Bob Oswald Environmental Protection Specialist %-Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety Durango Field Office 691 County Road 233, Suite A -2 Durango, Co. 81301 Re: Permit # M1977 -215 Technical Revision # TR20 Dear Mr. Oswald �62 V SST 7� fL�`►i i .�F- i � - `Z � I am writing you in regards to the Core Shed project location that you have recently approved as a part of Technical Revision # TR -20 for the Bulldog Mine project, as I discussed with you on the phone yesterday. We have staked out the road and pad location for that building. In doing so, we found that there are substantial cuts and disturbances to the hillside that led us to re- consider the building — placement location on the site. We re- visited the location issues and found that the area adjacent to the Admin. Building to the East would provide adequate room to place the building with a much lesser overall site disturbance and impact. I have included a site map and cross - section of the proposed location for your review and comments. The new location would be better from a logistical, safety, and Public- Relations standpoint in that it would look much nicer from town and the adjacent neighboring properties. The revised location seems to make better sense from several standpoints. Firstly, the originally proposed location would cause substantial disturbance to the entire hillside below the Administration Building. Secondly, the road grades were showing to be borderline extreme and looked like they were going to encounter solid rock that would need to be blasted to remove. Also, th placement adjacent to the admin building should allow us to eliminate the water and sewer/septic installations that would have been required with the original location, as we intend to pursur connecting these utilities to those already existing for the adjacent building and not install a separate system. Lastly, the location was crowding the edge of the Affected Area We her, project. and the with th we are along tl by request that you give consideration to the revised plan layout for the Core Shed We would appreciate your allowing us to move forward with the development of the pad adjacent parking area and retaining wall as shown in the attached documentation. The wall design will afford the additional level real estate needed for parking associated building. I have attached a couple of photos of the Concrete retaining wall blocks that roposing to use for the project. We have been using these same blocks as a safety barrier edge of the existing admin parking area. 112 East 12'h Street P.O. Box 610 Creede, CO 81130 719- 658 -1080 Fax: 719 -658 -1082 F- "