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The mining of the amendment area will involve the temporary relocation of portions of BB <br /> Road. The timing of the relocation and the restoration is given in Table 2.05.3-10-3. The <br /> best location for the main detour was north of the proposed operation and immediately south <br /> of Tuttle Draw. Map '_.05.3-14 shows the detour road in plan view, which will provide <br /> access for all users north of the site along 2700 Road to and from Nucla. Since the <br /> intersection of 2700 Road and BB Road(Sunshine Ranch Comer) will also be removed. all <br /> existing users west on BB Road must be provided new access. This is to be done by using <br /> the existing county road (BB 27) which goes west from 2700 Road approximately 1300 feet <br /> south of the Sunshine Ranch Comer and ends at the Morgan house. An extension of this <br /> road will be provided to the Enstrom, Johnson and Wilcox properties. These are the only <br /> users of the western portion of BB Road who will be affected by the operation. BB Road <br /> ends at the Wilcox property. <br /> The only traffic that will be slightly inconvenienced will be that traffic that travels from <br /> north of the operation directly south on 2700 Road or in the opposite direction. This traffic <br /> would have to use the detour to go to the town of Nucla, approximately 1.0 miles further <br /> east. This detour is expected to be in effect from the time 2700 Road is excavated in mid- <br /> 2002 until mid-2004 when the road will be replaced with gravel. The following year, the <br /> road would be paved in its original location. <br /> A detailed plan with engineering drawings of the detour was supplied to Montrose County <br /> for approval together with the revised special use permit application for the mine in July of <br /> 1999. <br /> The existing portion of BB Road through the amendment area will be used until mid to late <br /> year 2000 when mining will require the use of the detour. The detour will be 4550 feet long <br /> and will be installed to the Montrose County Road and Bridge specifications for collector <br /> roads <br /> h) Three hundred feet of an occupied dwelling unless a written waiver from the owner has been <br /> provided (2.07.6(2)(d)(v)). <br /> 5. On the basis of information submitted by The Colorado Historical Society in the form of a letter <br /> received October 19, 1999, from Susan M. Collins, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer, <br /> the Division finds that, subject to valid existing rights as of August 3, 1977, the mining operation <br /> will not adversely affect any publicly owned park or place listed on the National Register of <br /> Historic Places (2.07.6(2)(e)(i)). <br /> 6. For this surface mining operation, private mineral estate has been severed from private surface <br /> estate in some cases; therefore, the documentation specified by Rule 2.03.6(2) has been provided <br /> in Section 2.03.6 of the New Horizon 2 permit application (2.07.6(2)(f)). <br /> 7. On the basis of evidence submitted by the applicant and received from other state and federal <br /> agencies as a result of the Section 34-33-1 14(3) compliance review required by the Colorado <br /> 16 <br /> I <br />