2006-02-08_REVISION - M1978327

• Permit No: M1978327
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 2/8/2006
• Doc Name: Partial Acreage Reduction and Warranty Release Request
• From: Applegate Group Inc
• To: DMG
• Type & Sequence: SR1
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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February 7, 2006
Ms. Erica Crosby
Environmental Protection Specialist
Division of Minerals and Geology
1313 Sherman Street, Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
RE: Partial Acreage Reduction and Warranty Release Request;
Jake Kauffman & Son, Inc.; Kauffman Pit; M-78-327 l/
Deaz Ms. Crosby:
FEB 0 8 2006 /
Division of Minerals and Geology
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The following information is being submitted on behalf of our client, Jake Kauffman & Son, Inc.,
in response to comments provided by the Division in your letter dated January 20,. 2006.
Comments addressed the request for acreage reduction and financial warranty reduction for the
Kauffman Pit, Permit No. M-1978-327.
As requested, a revised map of the permit azea is attached. The map illustrates the 56.8 acres of
the original permit azea included in the release request and the proposed new permit boundary.
The new permit boundary includes acreage from the original Kauffman Pit permit (1979) and the
unreleased azea from the acreage added by Kauffman Pit Amendment AM-Ol in 1989. The new
permit area is approximately 135 acres.
In 1998, Technical Revision TR-02 changed the final land use of the site from pasture land to
industrial/commercial, making the property more consistent with Larimer County zoning codes.
However, the revision did not change the overall reclamation plan which still includes a
stabilized processing azea, groundwater lakes, and azeas to be graded and revegetated for
stabilization.
Aggregate processing and equipment storage and maintenance, along with two existing
groundwater lakes, aze located in the western portion of the permit azea. The majority of land
surface in this azea of the site is currently being used for commercial and industrial activities (i.e.
vehicle maintenance and storage, aggregate processing) and has already been stabilized with
road-base and pit-run aggregate material. Additionally, the majority of existing groundwater lake
shoreline has already been graded and stabilized with vegetation. Upon the completion of
mining and processing activities, fringe regions around the commercial and industrial work azea,
including some groundwater lake shoreline, may need to be graded or scazified and revegetated
for stabilization.
1499 West 120th Avenue, Suite 200
Denver, Colorado 80234-2759
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