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Feb. 12, 2013 <br />RECEIVED <br />FEB 12 2013 <br />DIVISION OF RECLAMATION <br />MINING AND SAFETY <br />The Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Via email to russ.means @state.co.us, Jeff.Fugate @state.co.us, loretta.pineda @state.co.us <br />Re: Objection to Notice of Temporary Cessation, Cotter Corporation JD -7 Mine, 112(d) Permit <br />No. M -1979- 094 -HR <br />Dear Members of the Mined Land Reclamation Board, <br />INFORM <br />INFORMATION NETWORK FOR <br />RESPONSIBLE MINING <br />PO Box 746 <br />TELLURIDE, CO <br />81435 -0746 <br />(212) 473 -7717 <br />jennifer@informcolorado.org <br />www.informcolorado.org <br />The Information Network for Responsible Mining is a Colorado -based citizens organization that <br />advocates for the protection of communities and the environment and actively participates in <br />mining reviews. Our members and staff have an interest in the environmental health and <br />conditions of mined lands in Colorado and are directly and adversely affected by the JD -7 Mine, <br />located in western Montrose County. INFORM has longstanding concerns about the permitting <br />status of the JD -7, the environmental impacts associated with the mine, and its condition as an <br />idle, open pit that has never produced ore over the lifetime of its permit since being issued in <br />1977. <br />The JD -7 Mine is not in compliance with the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Act. As the <br />Division reported following its most recent inspection of the site on Sept. 15, 2011: "The permit <br />history indicates no mining activities for this area have ever occurred." Cotter developed the <br />open pit, removed the overburden and established a large waste pile, and then placed the mine <br />into temporary cessation on April 7, 1981. Temporary cessation was renewed for a second, five - <br />year period on Aug. 21, 1986, and when that expired, the JD -7 was granted intermittent status on <br />Feb. 25, 1991. In Cotter's annual report filed on Dec. 12, 2012, the date of "last activity" at the <br />JD -7 was reported as 1982. <br />