REV88559

• Permit No: C1981018
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 8/15/2007
• Doc Name: Adequacy Review
• From: DRMS
• To: Blue Mountain Energy
• Type & Sequence: TR65
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Department of Natural Resources
1373 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
August 15, 2007
Scott Wanstedt
Blue Mountain Energy
3607 County Road #65
Rangely, CO 81648
RE: TR-65 Adequacy Review
Midterm Review Responses
Deserado Mine C-1981-018
Deaz Mr. Wanstedt,
COLORADO
DIVISION OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
- &-
SAFETY
Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor
Hanis D. Sherman
Executive Director
Ronald W. Ganany
Division Director
Natural Resource Trustee
The Division has completed review of the materials submitted for Technical Revision
No. 65 (TR-65), midterm review responses for the Deserado Mine. Where a question has
been resolved, a brief description of the original issue is included.
Legal description of permit boundary. Item resolved.
2. The Division suggests the following text in bold be added to page III-18.
`...whenever coal is extracted under the county road. County Road 65 will be
monitored daily while mining below it and during the active subsidence period.
This visual daily monitoring will occur between the posted subsidence hazard
signs, commencing when the longwall has advanced within approximately
500 feet of the road right-of--way and continue until mining has advanced 500
feet past the section of road. Any subsidence damage will be repaired;
including any cracks that could create a safety hazard or delay traffic. If portions
of County Road 65 are undermined within any 6 month period, BME will
report the results of the monitoring and mitigation measures taken, if any, as
an attachment to the quarterly refuse pile inspections.
Isolation of shaft annulus. Item resolved.
4. The groundwater quality standards applicable to the point of compliance (POC)
are the most stringent of the parameters listed in Tables l - 4 of Regulation 41.
The Division compiled a comprehensive list and forwarded that to you via email
on August 13, 2007. Until such time that BME demonstrates through sampling
results that certain parameters are not present (not detected) and coal mining
would not be expected to be a source for those parameters, the comprehensive
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