DRC-2010-001402 - 0901a0688015eba1

State of Utah
GARY R. HERBERT
Govemor
GREG BELL
Lieutenant Governor
Department of
Environmental Quality
Amanda Smith
Acting Executive Director
DIVISION OF RADIATION CONTROL
Dane L. Finerfrock
Director
January 20, 2009
CERTIFIED MAIL
(Retum Receipt Requested)
Mr. Steven D. Landau
Manager of Environmental Affairs
Denison Mines (USA) Corp.
1050 n"' Street, Suite 950
Denver, CO 80265
Dear Mr. Landau:
SUBJECT: December 1, 2009 White Mesa Mill Discharge Minimization Technology (DMT)
Perfonnance Standard Monitoring Report, 3rd Quarter, 2009; April 7, 2009 DRC
Letter: NOTICE OF NONCOMPLIANCE [NONC], Upcoming Permit
Modifications and Future Compliance Determination; Report Approval and
Request for Future Report Improvement
We received the subject 3rd Quarter, 2009 DMT report by email on December 1, 2009.
We have reviewed this report, and have the following comments:
It appears the items of concemed raised in the subject DRC letter of April 7, 2009 are in
compliance in this report, with respect to the ground water discharge permit. Therefore, this
quarterly report is hereby approved.
As you are aware as required by the Part I.D.3.b.l of the permit, "the Permittee shall at all times
maintain the average wastewater head in the slimes drain access pipe to be as low as reasonably
achievable in each tailings disposal cell, in accordance with a DMT Monitoring Plan. Compliance
shall be achieved when the average annual wastewater recovery elevation in the slimes drain
access pipe, determined pursuant to the currently approved DMT Monitoring Plan, meets the
conditions in Equation 1 . . ." We note that pursuant to Part I.D.3(b) of the upcoming Ground
Water Discharge Permit modification, that Cell 2 compliance in this matter will be determined
after submittal of the 4"" Quarter, 2010 DMT Monitoring Report.
We note that the documents submitted by DUSA were derived by scanning other paper versions
of the documents. Please note that the graphic enclosed at the end of the report is to be a color
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figure. However, the document was scanned as a black and white figure. This resulted in a loss
of certain key information. As a result, the electronic submittal did not meet the requirements that
it be a "...true, accurate... copy ofthe original submission,..." as required by UAC R313-12-
111(2). We remind you for future reference to have color documents scanned in color.
If you have any questions on the above, please contact Mr. Rupp.
UTAH WATER QUALITY BOARD
Dane L. Finerf^ck
Co-Executive Secretary
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