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Memo to PCPC <br /> Re: SUP No. 1999-002 <br /> June 9, 1999 <br /> Page 6 <br /> B3-2. To have industrial growth that would diversify the region's production and <br /> make available new employment opportunities. <br /> 1. Promote the Pueblo Urban Area as the industrial center of the <br /> region, yet plan for industrial development in those areas which <br /> make available the necessary urban services. <br /> 2. Attract new industries and actively promote expansion of existing <br /> industries which provide local jobs and expand the local tax base. <br /> 3. Encourage the development of industrial activities which could best <br /> utilize existing facilities and their products or by-products. <br /> The Comprehensive Plan discusses Mineral Resources within Section VII-D as follows: <br /> D-1. Mineral Resource Areas: Classifications. The Mineral Area Section <br /> of the Plan is a compendium of the definitions found in House Bills 1529 <br /> (1973) and 1041 (1974), the pollicies established in the adopted Pueblo <br /> County Resolutions Nos. 229, 230, 231, and 232, and the texts of the <br /> Mineral Extraction Master Plan for Pueblo County and the PRPC <br /> document Geologic Hazards and Mineral Resource Areas, Pueblo <br /> County, Colorado. <br /> A Mineral Resource Area is defined as follows: <br /> "Mineral Resource Area: An area in which minerals are located in sufficient <br /> concentration in veins, deposits, bodies, beds, seams, fields, pools, or otherwise, <br /> as to be capable of economic recovery. The term includes, but is not limited to, <br /> any area in which there has been significant mining activity in the past, where <br /> mining development is planned or in progress, or where mineral rights are held <br /> by mineral patent or valid mining claims with the intention of mining. The term <br /> also includes an area of oil and gas or geothermal resource development if such <br /> has been identified by the State Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for <br /> designation." <br /> There are three basic kinds of deposits that are of concern: <br /> (1) Mineral Fuels — coals, petroleum, natural gas; <br /> (2) Metalliferous deposits —from which metals are extracted; and <br /> (3) Nonmetallic deposits — phosphate rock, gypsum, sulfur, <br /> graphite, cement rock, and many others. The formation and <br />