HYDRO31506

• Permit No: C1981008
• IBM Index Class Name: Hydrology
• Doc Date: 8/8/2000
• Doc Name: AUTHORIZATION TO DISCHARGE FROM OUTFALL 008 WESTERN FUELS CO NEW HORIZON MINE CDPS CO-0002113
• From: CDOH
• To: WESTERN FUELS ASSOCIATION INC
• Permit Index Doc Type: OTHER SURFACE WATER
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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STATE OF COLORADO
Bill Ovens, Governor
Jane E. Norton, Executive Diroaor
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Denier, Cobrado 80216 7 5 3 0
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Water O.udlty Control gNebn
WO.C6PERMIT8-82
13031 88 2-3500 FAx [phone]
August 8, 2000
Murari P. Shrestha, P.E.
Director of Permitting and Contracfing Affairs
iJestem Fuels Asstx;iadon, im;.
P.O. Box 33424
Denver, CO 80233-3424
RE: Authorization to DicrJtarge from Outfa11008
Western Fuels-CO New Horizon Mine
CDPS No. CO-0000213
Montrose County
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By letter dated October 26, 1998, and received in our office on October 28, 1998, you requested that a new outfall
be added to the above referenced permit. To date, the Division has been unable to complete an amendment to the
permit to authorize this new outfall. Under the Colorado Water Quality Control Act, if so requested by the
permittee, the Division is obligated to issue a temporary permit when 180 days has elapsed from the date of receipt
of application without a permanent permit being issued. By telephone call on August 8, 2000, you requested that
authorization for this new outfdl be extended. On this basis, the Division is authorizing this new outfall 008 via
this letter, subject to the cotditions in this letter.
Discharge from this new outfall may consist of mire pit water and/or surface runoff after treatment in a settling
potd wide 7.486 acre-feet of desigtted storage capacity. The outfall of the pond goes ro a drainage that is tributary
-- - to Calamity Draw. '
The Division has determined that dte etlluent is similar in pollutants and characteristics to the effluent from
currently authorized ouffall 007. On this basis, the effluent from new outfa11008 shall meet the effluent limitations
found in Part I.A.1.(c) and the monitoring requirements found in Part I.B.1.(b) of the currently effective permit.
Whole effluent toxicity (WET) testing shall be required on a quarterly basis. The Burden of Proof Requirements
found in Part I.A,1.(d) of the permit apply to this new outfall with the same conditions applicable to existing outfall
007.
Reporting of this discharge shall be quarterly, as with the reporting of discharge from other currently authorized
outfalls under this permit. We request that you photocopy the appropriate discharge monitoring reports (DMRs)
for outfa11007 and rhatlge the outfall number to '008' for use in reporting for this new outfa110t)8 until such time
as the outfatl has been permarently authorized and preprinted DMRs have been given to you. Please prominently
indicate on the upper portion of the tare of the form that this report is for a period of ~~ry