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Tallahassee Area Community, Inc• Board PO <br />of Directors <br />Box 343 <br />Carson City, Colorado 81212 <br />Fremont County, Colorado www.taccolorado.com <br />21 January 2015 <br />Mr. Tim Cazier <br />Environmental Protection Specialist <br />G G Y G <br />RECEIVED <br />-n, Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />=2" <br />DIVISION OF RECLAMATION <br />Via Email Attachment (tim.cazier @state.co.us) <br />MINING AND SAFEfY <br />Re: Black Range Minerals NOI P 2009 -025 Modification 03 <br />Dear Mr. Cazier: <br />Tallahassee Area Community (TAC) is taking this opportunity to extend our comments of January 12, <br />2015 regarding the Black Range Minerals (BLR) application to modify its current Prospecting NOI, and to <br />formally enter our objection to this modification on both procedural and technical insufficiency grounds. <br />BLR has completed its prospecting of the Hansen site in its Taylor Ranch /Hansen Uranium Project! <br />For over two years, the company has published announcements to the investment community as well <br />as to the general public that it has completed prospecting, indentified the target mineral resource at <br />Hansen through an updated JORC statement, and specified what they believe to be the only economical <br />mining process to exploit it. They have also published an ongoing and future pre- mining baseline water <br />quality program and have announced that they have commenced the mining permitting process in <br />anticipation of being in active mining operations by the end of 2016. <br />Please see: <www.blackrangeminerals.com >, Investor Relations, ASX Announcements. <br />The proposed one -time sample collection activity as described in Patrick Siglin's cover letter for Mod 03 <br />of the NOI is not prospecting. Rather, it is a "Development" activity, as defined in the Mined Land <br />Reclamation Act, to be done following prospecting as a pilot operation for the purpose of validating the <br />viability of Underground Bore Hole Mining (UBHM), a process never before implemented as described <br />for uranium recovery. It is not appropriately considered by DRMS under a Prospecting NOI. <br />Regardless of the foregoing, TAC has a number of technical and scientific objections to the process as <br />described in the modification application. <br />Both BLR and its consultant, Kinley Exploration, have described UBHM in detail numerous times. The <br />description in Mr. Siglin's cover letter is an abbreviated description of the very same process and the <br />schematic shown in Attachment 4 identifies the infrastructure and equipment required for UBHM. One <br />