REP16488

• Permit No: C1981033
• IBM Index Class Name: Report
• Doc Date: 4/12/2002
• Doc Name: 2000 AHR Adequacy Review Letter
• From: DMG
• To: Bear Coal Company
• Annual Report Year: 2000
• Permit Index Doc Type: Hydrology Report
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Department o(Natural Resources
1313 Sherman SL, Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
April 12, 2002
DIVISION OF
MINERALS
GEOLOGY
RECLAMATION
MINING•SAFETY
Mr. Daniel E. Bear Bill Owens
Governor
Bear Coal Company Creg E. Watcher
P.O. BOX 1754 Executive Director
Paonia, Colorado 81428 Michael B. Long
Division Director
RE: Adequacy Review, 2000 Annual Hydrology Report, Bear No. 3 Mine, Permit No. C-81-
033, Bear Coal Company
Deaz Mr. Bear:
The Division has finished its review of the 2000 Annual Hydrology Report (AHR) for the Bear
No. 3 Mine. In its review, the Division found several discrepancies between what is required in
the permit application and what was submitted. The Division has the following questions and
comments.
Previously, the Division requested that Bear Coal Company (BCC) expand the list of
chemical constituents that are to be monitored at the mine. The first request was
contained in a letter dated Mazch 2, 2000 and reiterated in a letter dated March 15, 2000.
In those two letters, the Division requested that copper, selenium, zinc and boron be
added to the hydrologic monitoring list.
The second request, which superseded the first request, was made in the midterm
adequacy review letter dated September 18, 2000 and reiterated in the permit renewal
adequacy review Letter dated March 6, 2002. In those two adequacy review letters, the
Division requested that the hydrologic monitoring plan be updated to include those
analytes for which receiving stream standazds exist for the North Fork of the Gunnison
River. Please respond to this request.
Page 2.04-30b of the permit application states that the list of chemical parameters that are
to be analyzed for the annual full suite analyses for alluvial wells AAl and AA2 can be
found in Table 4f. Table 4f is on page 2.04-30s of the permit application. However, the
data submitted in the 2000 AHR for AAl And AA3 do not contain analyses of several of
these parameters. Those missing parameters are bicarbonate, calcium, carbonate, chloride,
selenium, sodium and sulfate. Please explain.
3. Permit application page 2.04-30 states that three springs, G-26A, G-26B and CR-12, are