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30 miles of the Cache La Poudre are classified as Wild and 46 miles are classified <br /> as Recreational. <br /> Please correct me if I am wrong but it is my understanding that: <br /> A. the Cache La Poudre River is a designated Class I Area and as such is specially <br /> protected by the PSD. <br /> B. the Cache La Poudre Riverbank adjoins the entire western border of the town of <br /> LaPorte itself. <br /> C. On or about January 11,2017,key requirements for the Federal Land Manager <br /> notification process had been summarized by the Director of the EPA's Air Quality <br /> Policy Division, Ms. Anna Marie Wood. <br /> The summary requires any proposed facility which will be located within 100 <br /> kilometers of a Class I area to "provide the EPA notice of the permit application <br /> to the Federal Land Manager and the Federal official charged with direct <br /> responsibility for management of any lands within a Class I area which may be <br /> affected from a proposed new facility." <br /> The summary also stated that large sources may be expected to affect"air <br /> quality related values"at distances greater than 100 kilometers. <br /> The Summary infers that the likelihood of deterioration of air quality caused <br /> by any Industry situated within 100 kilometers of the Cache La Poudre River <br /> is of serious concern because it can directly affect LaPorte and in the case of <br /> bigger facilities can even extend to areas as far as 97 miles away and farther. <br /> The major concern of the Community is that high density mining,places the <br /> community of LaPorte in the direct path of any adverse incident resulting from any <br /> accidental or negligent discharge of particulates in the air—such as what had <br /> happened in Donora Pennsylvania in 1948(giving rise to the Clean Air Act)and <br /> then again in LaPorte in the 1994 Glass Factory incident. <br /> Being that, LaPorte is only 6.1 square miles in size, and that the proposed LRM <br /> open-pit mining and cement processing facility would be situated less than a <br /> kilometer away from the Class I protected area of the Cache La Poudre River;the <br /> concerned citizens of LaPorte are earnestly appealing for the Colorado Division of <br /> Reclamation Mining& Safety's intervention in enforcing the special protection of <br /> the Cache La Poudre River and the town of LaPorte itself-against the excessive <br /> mining that abuts in the backyards of homes and in the heart of the community of <br /> LaPorte. <br /> The concerned citizens of LaPorte would also like to bring to your attention, a <br /> 2 <br />