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<br /><A. <br /> <br />., <br /> <br /> <br />UNITED STATES <br />DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR <br />BUREAU OF MINES <br />Intermountain Field Operation Center <br /> <br />BUILDING 20 <br />DENVER P'EDERAL CENTIItR <br />DENVER. COL.ORADO 8OiU5 <br /> <br />Office of <br />Chief <br /> <br />August 11, 1970 <br /> <br />Your reference: <br />MROED-DC <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />Mr. Charles L. Hipp <br />Chief, Engineering Division <br />Omaha District, Corps of Engineers <br />Department of the Army <br />7410 U.S. Post Office and Court House <br />Omaha, Nebraska. 68102 <br /> <br />Dear Mr. Hipp: <br /> <br />The Corps of Engineers statement on the environmental impact of the <br />authorized Bear Creek project./Denver, Colo., which was submitted <br />with your memoTandum of July 19, has been reviewed by personnel of <br />this office. Their comments follow: <br /> <br />ParagTaph 2d: The statement should be rephrased to note that clay, <br />sand, and gravel deposits still are being mined within the project <br />area to provide materials for construction. <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />Paragraphs 3a and b: Because the project would increase flood <br />pTotection for land downstream to the Platte River, some of these <br />lands now held fOT Band and gravel TeSOuTces may well become more <br />valuable for other uses. Thus. their potential for production of <br />building materials could be effectively reduced. <br /> <br />If clay, sand, and gravel mining are not permitted in the project <br />area, reaources will be lost and the market that this area now <br />supplies must draw from other sources--sources, incidentally, that <br />also are under pressure from urbanization, recreation, environmental <br />restriction, or flood control projects. <br /> <br />Paragraph 3c: Possible alternatives also include a coordinated <br />development program that would provide for extraction of the' sand <br />and gravel (foT use. in part. as project construction material), <br />