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• Permit No: C1984062
• IBM Index Class Name: Application Correspondence
• Doc Date: 4/23/1987
• Doc Name: MIDDLE CREEK OFFICE BUILDING RECLAMATION PLAN COLO YAMPA COAL MINE 3 PERMIT C-81-036
• From: MLRD
• To: COLO YAMPA COAL CO
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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STATE OF COLORADO
Roy Romer, Governor
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
MINED LAND RECLAMATION DIVISION
DAVID C. SNELTON, Director
April 23, 1987
Mr. Terrell Johnson
Colorado Yampa Coal Company
29588 Routt County Road No. 27
Oak Creek, Colorado 80467
Re: Middle Creek Office Building Reclamation Plan, Colorado Yampa Coal
Mine No. 3, Permit No. C-81-036
Dear Mr. Johnson:
The Division has considered your request to define the type of demonstration
which would be required to allow the Middle Creek office buidling to remain
as a permanent structure on the Middle Creek alluvial valley floor (AVF).
The Division has reviewed the Rules and Regulations that pertain to AVF's
and have concluded that Rule 2.06.8 and Rule 4.24 require the reestablishment
of the essential hydrologic functions of any alluvial valley floor after mining.
Anticipated changes to Rule 2.06.8 and current Office of Surface Mining
guidelines indicate that the essential hydrologic functions of all AVF's must
be reestablished at the conclusion of mining.
Demonstrations that the area of the affected AVF is small compared to the
total area of the AVF and demonstrations that the structure is beneficial to
farming are insufficient because they do not address the issue of reestablishment
of the essential hydrologic function of the AVF required by Rule 2.06.8 and 4.24.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding this matter.
Sincerely,
~~.
Brent C. Anderson
Reclamation Specialist
BCA/ddt
423 Centennial Building, 1313 Sherman Street Denver, Colorado 80203-2273 Tel. [phone]