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Show ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE NO. ACT047001 BEFORE THE BOARD OF OIL, GAS AND MINING MIN-ING DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY in and for the STATE OF UTAH IN THE MATTER OF APPROVAL OF THE NOTICE OF INTENT AND RECLAMATION PLAN SUBMITTED TO TOSCO DEVELOPMENT DEVELOP-MENT CORPORATION, UINTAH COUNTY, UTAH THE STATE OF UTAH TO ALL OPERATORS, TAKERS OF PRODUCTION, PRODUC-TION, MINERAL AND ROYALTY OWNERS, AND PARTICULARLY ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN-TERESTED IN SECTION SEC-TION 35, TOWNSHIP 9 SOUTH, RANGE 21 EAST, UINTAH COUNTY, COUN-TY, UTAH. Notice is hereby given that tentative approval was given by the Division of Oil, Gas and Mining on June 29, 1982, by Tosco Development Corporation, Corpora-tion, a subsidiary of Tosco Corporation to commence Phase I of the Sand Wash Development Shaft and Mine Project. The project is located in Section 35, Township 9 South, Range 21 East, Uintah County, Utah. Phase I consists of an experimental ex-perimental mining program pro-gram designed to obtain data for optimizing a commercial mine design. A mine shaft will be excavated ex-cavated to 2460 feet and surface support facilities constructed. The Tosco Development Develop-ment Corporation has fulfilled obligations under the Utah Mined Land Reclamation Act of 1975 (Section 40-8, U.C.A., 1953, as amended), and will employ the following mining and reclamation practices on Utah Mineral Leases ML-20642 and ML-20641. During Operations: 1. Approximately 39 acres, confined to one drainage basin, will be disturbed. 2. A sedimentation pond, mine water retention reten-tion pond and ditches around the retention pond will be constructed during dur-ing the first phases of site preparation. 3. As much topsoil and subsoil as can be reasonably picked up will be saved during site preparation site preparation. prepara-tion. One or two stockpiles will be present on-site, depending on the chemical characteristics of the materials available. Stockpiles will be protected from erosion by vegetation or other means. 4. No oil shale crushing or retorting will take place on-site. Coarse ore will be stockpiled on-site. 5. An existing road will be upgraded for mine access, ac-cess, with two miles of new road built. 6. A drainage ditch with a minimum bottom width of two feet will parallel all roads. All drainage struc-" tures will be designed for the two-year flow event. , Straw bales will be used where appropriate to control con-trol sediment yields from disturbed areas. 7. Waste rock from the development shaft will be used to construct part of the pad. 8. If large amounts of water are encountered during shaft sinking, grouting will occur. ! 9. The ventilation ' system for the shaft will be constructed for the : possibility of a gassy 1 mine. 10. All wastes generated on-site will be transported to the Uintah County landfill and disposed of. No toxic materials or hazardous wastes will be generated. 11. Mine water will be discharged to the surface to the mine water retention reten-tion pond. It is planned that water collected in the retention pond will be treated as necessary and re-injected into the Bird's Nest Aquifer. 12. Sewage and water treatment plants will be built on-site. Some ac- - cumulated sludge will have to be shipped to an approved landfill. After Operations: 1. All buildings, structures struc-tures and tanks, and the headframe will be disassembled and removed remov-ed from the site for recycling. . 2. The building foundations founda-tions will be broken up and the refuse will be recycled, disposed of at a landfill, or buried on-site. 3. Embankment structures struc-tures will be removed and embankment areas recontoured to be self-draining self-draining and nonimpoun-ding. nonimpoun-ding. Diversion ditches will be leveled and stabilized. 4. The coarse ore stockpile will be stabilized stabiliz-ed and revegetated. 5. The shaft will be plugged with two levels of structural steel and concrete con-crete plugs, above and below the level of the Bird's Nest Aquifer. On the surface, the collar will be closed with a steel plate welded to the steel collar structure. 6. Existing improved roads will continue to be used. New roads constructed con-structed on the project site will be removed and reclaimed, with the exception ex-ception of a few short segments. 7. The project site will be regraded to blend with existing land forms, and available soil materials will be respread in preparation for revegeta-tion. revegeta-tion. The regraded area will be self-draining and nonimpounding. 8. Disturbed areas that were vegetated prior to disturbance will be revegetated with an appropriate ap-propriate grass-forb-shrub mixture. In areas that were previously nonvegetated (i.e., very rocky sites), a seedbed will be prepared, but seeding may not take place. Reclamation performance perfor-mance surety will be established prior to issuing issu-ing final approval of the mining and reclamation plan. Any person or agency aggrieved by this tentative ten-tative decision is hereby requested to submit written writ-ten protest within 30 days of the date of publication to the Division of Oil, Gas and Mining, 4241 State Office Of-fice Building, Salt Lake City, Utah setting forth factual reasons for their complaint and thereafter, at a time and place heretobe established, appear ap-pear before the Board of Oil, Gas and Mining to show cause, if any there be, why this plan should not be approved. DATED this 29th day of June, 1982. STATE OF UTAH BOARD OF OIL, GAS AND MINING PAULA J. FRANK .Secretary of the Board Published in the Vernal Express July 7, 1982. |