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• • iii iiiiiiiiiiiu iii <br />999 <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br />DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY <br />Depanmenl of Nalurzl Resources <br />t 313 Sherman 51., Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80'_03 <br />Phone: (303) 866-3567 <br />FAX: 1301) A32-8106 <br />March 13, 2001 <br />„^a S":'--mss ~~ <br />..q ,.e r '":u0 i.. <br />L..., ~-1-Zoal-oai _ <br />e.°~--• <br />DIVISION OF <br />MINERALS <br />GEOLOGY <br />RECLAMATION <br />MINING•SAFETY <br />Aryol Brumley <br />Four States Aggregates, LLC <br />P.O. Box 1568 <br />Cortez, CO 81321-1568 <br />Nathan A. Barton <br />Kadrmas Less & Jackson PC <br />P.O. Box 88 <br />Cortez, CO 81321-1568 <br />RE: Adequacy Issues fora 112c Application, <br />Line Camp Pit, File No. M-2001-001. <br />Dear Mr. Brumley and Mr. Barton: <br />Bill Owens <br />Goeernor <br />GregE Walther <br />Eaecunve DuecWr <br />Michael B. Long <br />Division Director <br />The Division has completed a preliminary adequacy review of the above referenced <br />application. Please respond to each of the adequacy concerns identified below in a timely <br />manner so that all Division concerns can be adequately resolved prior to the decision date. <br />Please be advised that the application may be deemed inadequate, and your application <br />may be denied on April 10. 2001, unless the following adequacy items are addressed to <br />the satisfaction of the Division. Please provide your responses sufficiently in advance of <br />the decision date to allow DMG staff adequate time to review the response. In the <br />alternative, you can request in writing an extension to the decision date if additional time <br />is needed to respond to the comments provided below. <br />Adequacy Items <br />1. The application appears to indicate that the mine access road, from Hwy 145, <br />already exists. However, several of the objecting parties have asserted that the <br />application is in error because the proposed mine access road has not yet been <br />constructed. Please clarify whether the proposed mine access road was <br />constructed prior to the completeness date for the application. If the road was not <br />constructed prior to January 11, 2001, please clarify the statements in the <br />application which appear to indicate that the access road is an existing road. <br />Regardless of the date of construction, the application states that the proposed <br />access road from Hwy 145 will be substantially upgraded to support the mining <br />operation. Therefore, pursuant to Rule 1 .1 (3), the access road from Hwy 145 is <br />