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July 4, 2013 <br />Eddie Kochman <br />Delivered via email: eddiekochman2aol.com <br />Tom Kaldenbach, Senior Environment Protection Specialist with the State of Colorado <br />sent a copy of your comments to me. I appreciate your concerns and will try to cover <br />them as best I can. <br />The amount of water available for us to operate changes from year to year depending on <br />snow pack. Even with heavy snow pack, it would be difficult to imagine us being able to <br />operate for more than round 12 weeks per season. Water Commissioner Garver Brown <br />has agreed to allow us to use the water rights deeded to the property. <br />The mine site sits in a natural depression that runs approximately north south along the <br />top of Pennsylvania Mountain and the process ponds are located within this feature. <br />There are no streams or other water features on this site. The large pond will be used for <br />processing the sand and gravel with a wash plant. Tailings will not be allowed to fill the <br />pond. The pond is built on bedrock so there will be so seepage from the process site to <br />lower aquifers. Also, no ground water has been observed in any of the test pits from the <br />myriad of old prospects along the top of the mountain. <br />Upon completion of mining out an area, the washed rock, sand, gravel and tailings will be <br />placed back into the mine face and re- contoured to match its preexisting slope. 6 inches <br />of organic loam will be placed on top of the re- contoured area and a mountain pasture <br />seed mix will be hand -sewn in at a rate of 40 pounds per acre. The State of Colorado will <br />require us to place a bond on the property to ensure reclamation is completed. <br />Truck traffic is expected to be light coming from and going to the mine. A small amount <br />of moss rock may be sold. This would be hand stacked on pallets and tied together with <br />wire screen. Only short flat bed trucks would be able to handle the road. The Colorado <br />Division of Wildlife will come to the site for a wildlife inventory before any decision will <br />be made by the State regarding this permit application. <br />Thank you for your comments. If you desire more information feel free to contact me <br />directly at vogt1 l @comcast net. <br />Sincerely, <br />.I <br />5 <br />Jeff Vogt <br />