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III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br />OFFICE OF THE STATE ENGINEER <br />Division of Water Resources <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room B18 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone: (303) 866-3581 <br />FAX: 1303) 8663589 <br />httpl/waterstate.co.us/default. htm <br />Mike Hart <br />Hart Environmental <br />P.O. Box 1303 <br />Boulder, CO 80306 <br />November 1, 2001 <br />~~~~i ~~® <br />V <br />o;~;S;a 0? ?00/ <br />a a/Mrae~als aad den/09Y <br />pF'CO~ <br />h~ p~Y <br />Nom' j O <br />0 <br />.~. <br />aµ~B l6 ~• <br />Bil I Owens <br />Governor <br />Greg E. Walther <br />Executive Director <br />Hal D. Simpson, P.E. <br />State Engineer <br />Re: PreS6 89-120 Exposed Acres in the Greeley West Pit, DMG No. M-77-081 <br />Dear Mike: <br />First I want to apologize for not responding sooner. I appreciate your patience and <br />understanding. I hope to clarify Kathleen's letter dated April 5, 2001, and confirm <br />statements in your letter dated April 12, 2001. Any groundwater exposed prior to January 1, <br />1981, in this case 45.5 acres, can be used as a credit to offset an equal portion of the <br />augmentation requirements for any current or future ground water exposed within the permit <br />boundaries of the Greeley West Pit. Also, it does not matter whether the currently exposed <br />groundwater area includes the pre-1981 exposed groundwater area of 45.5 acres. A one- <br />for-one credit will be allowed anywhere within the original permit boundaries (a.k.a. original <br />permit area) as they were created under the DMG permit number M-77-081. Any <br />subsequent modification, whether increase or decrease, to those boundaries will not change <br />the original permit area within which the credit can only be applied. This issue is the current <br />interpretation of SB 89-120 by the State Engineer. Please contact me if you have any <br />additional questions. <br />Sincerely, <br />Dick Wolfe, P.E. <br />Office of the State Engineer <br />Cc: M-77-081 Greeley West Gravel Pit SS,P File <br />Division of Minerals and Geology l/ <br />Dick Stenzel <br />Bill McIntyre <br />P. Dass <br />