PERMFILE66082

• Permit No: M1999060
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 6/7/1999
• Doc Name: YOCAM PIT FILE M-99-060 ADEQUACY REVIEW OF PERMIT APPLICATION
• From: DMG
• To: LAS ANIMAS CNTY
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Depanmenl of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman SL, Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAR: [phone]
June 7. 1999
Mr. Robert A. Lucero, County Planner
Las Animas County
200 E. First, Room 104
Trinidad, CO 81082
DIVISION OF
MINERALS
cEOLOCY
RECLAMATION
MINING•SAFETY
Bill Owens
Governor
Greg E. Watcher
Executive Dveaor
Michael B. Long
Division Director
RE: Yocam Pit (File M-99-060) Adequacy review of permit application
Dear Mc Lucero:
The Division has conducted an adequacy review of the above referenced application and has identified the
following concerns:
PAGE 6 OF APPLICATION: You have signed the application on behalf of Las Animas County but you
~,/ _ arc not designated on Page 3 of the application as the Applicant /Operator but only as the Permitting Contact.
Please provide a letter from the ApplicanUOperator indicating that you have the awhority to sign the
application on behalf of the Coumy.
EXHIBIT C, Section (f): You have not specified the dimensions of the excavated pit which appears, from
the Exhibit E-Mining Plan Map, as possibly extending over the entire proposed permit area from the area of the
~ stockpiles south east to the limits of the permit area.
Please confirm that the area to be excavated is as stated above or provide the dimensions of the pit to be
excavated and an appropriately revised Exhibit E-Mining Plan Map.
EXHIBIT C. Section (j ): You have stated that Colorado water laws or existing water rights will not be
affected by this operation. Under Exhibit C, Section (i), however, you indicate you will contain excessive runoff
within the pit area which the Division believes might conflict with the requirements of State Statutes administered
~l'i by the State Engineer's Office. In Exhibit F, you do not indicate any contact with the State Engineer's Office.
Please indicate if any contact with the State Engineer's Office was had in regard to your planned retention
of storm water runoff on site and the result of that contact.
EXHIBIT D, Section (v): This section requests information in regard to any need for mulching in
conjunction with the revegetalion of the site and, if mulching is needed, what would be planned. Nothing in the
Q~ Exhihit or in the included NRCS seeding plan speaks to consideration of this section of the Exhibit.
Please indicate if there is a need for mulching and, if so, what kind, the crimping method and the rate of
application.
EXHIBIT D, Section (vi): This section requests information on the establishment of shrubs and/or trees.
O.~ Nothing in the Exhibit speaks to this or to consideration of this requirement.
Please indicate if there is the intention to establish any shrubs or trees as par[ of the reclamation plan and,
if so, please indicate [he species and number to he established per acre.