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J III IIIIIIIIIIIII III sss MINE SITE EVALUATION REPORT NARRATIVE . _ TERROR CREEK COMPANY P.0. BOX 117 Paonia, CO 81428 Permit Application No. C-059-83 Personnel on Inspection: Fredrick Chilton, Operations Manager Gary Fritz, Reclamation Specialist This loadout facility has the capacity to crush and screen 500,000 tons of mine run coal and ship it via truck or the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad to the point of destination. At this time, the coal is not being washed so there is no refuse impoundment. The 20 acre area is located about 4 1/2 miles east of Paonia on the south side of SR 133. The facility has been operating for several years but only recently came under the jurisdic- tion of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division (NERD). A letter of credit was posted by the company as a bond for the reclamation of the area on December 19, 1983. The State has not issued the company a mining permit because they are still reviewing the letter of credit. I discussed the timing of issuance of the permit with Dan Matthews, one of the State's Mined Land Reclamation Specialists, on January 30, 1984. He said that the permit would probably be issued within a few weeks. A copy of the State mine permit application, C-059-83; the NPDES permit, CO-0039756, and a waiver to mine within 300 feet of an occupied dwelling from one of the adjacent landowners was available for review at the mine. An additional 300 Foot waiver was needed for another property owner on the northeast side of the permit but the resident would not give his consent. Consequently, thirty-five hundreths of an acre that was disturbed prior to the permit requirement had to be reclaimed. Sediment control is accomplished by a series of berms a pond. A concrete dike was built on the bottom side of the processing pad to keep runoff from going over the railroad enbankment.