Gold King Mine Documents - August 28, 2015

• 1996 Consent Decree, Sunnyside Gold Corp. v. Colorado Water Quality Control Division (PDF)(183 pp, 11 MB)
  Without deciding the issue, this Consent Decree settlement resolved a disagreement between Sunnyside Gold Corporation and the Colorado Water Quality Control Division concerning whether seeps and springs that may arise from placing bulkheads in the American Tunnel would be subject to Clean Water Act jurisdiction as point sources. This settlement allowed Sunnyside to complete reclamation of the American Tunnel and Sunnyside Mine and terminate Colorado Discharge Pollutant Permits held by Sunnyside.
• Joint Motion for Entry of Consent Decree and Order (PDF)(24 pp, 1 MB)
• Colorado Department of Natural Resources application for EPA grant for project titled “Upper Animas Watershed Mines – Red and Bonita Mine.” (PDF)(25 pp, 2 MB)
• EPA’s March 11, 2015 Cooperative Agreement with the Colorado Department of Natural Resources (PDF)(10 pp, 1 MB)
  Cooperative Agreement - This document is the EPA’s March 11, 2015 Cooperative Agreement with the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, providing grant funding to the State to perform technical engineering support as well as monitoring and assessment of the Red and Bonita Mine, Cement Creek and Upper Animas areas.
• Memorandum by Colorado DNR employee summarizing the events of August 5 from that employee’s perspective. (PDF)(2 pp, 699 K)
• The Emergency and Rapid Response Services (ERRS) contract between the EPA and Environmental Restoration, LLC (PDF)(209 pp, 32 MB)
  Document containing the basic contract terms between EPA and Environmental Restoration, LLC, as well as modifications and pertinent task orders
• Email Describing Chronology of Gold King Mine incident (PDF)(3 pp, 1 MB)