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COLORADO MILLING COMPANY, LLC P.O. Box 1523 Longmont, Colorado 80502 Gretchen Diefenderfer December 25, 2018 9147 Sunshine Canyon Drive Boulder, Colorado 80302 <gretchend@me.com> Gretchen Diefendefer: The Colorado Milling Company, LLC is herewith responding to your regarding the Application for an Amendment to the Gold Hill Mill Limited Impact 110 (2) Permit No. M-1994-117, filed to add the previously permitted Left Hand Creek Pump Station, Gold Hill Mill Pipeline, and the Times Mine adit portal to the affected land boundary of the Gold Hill Mill Permit. As you know, Gold Hill Mill has only been owned and actually operated by four companies since it was constructed in 1986 and 1987. The first was the original permitted operator, the Gold Hill Ventures Limited Partnership; the second was a company called Colina Oro Molina; the third company was ITEC Environmental; and the fourth was Mount Royale Ventures. Of the four companies that owned and operated the milling facility, only one, Colina Oro Molina, was responsible for all of the operational violations at the Gold Hill Mill. Colina Oro Molina was owned and controlled by Gwen Fraser of Seattle, Washington. She placed her brother, J. Wayne Tatman, in control of the Gold Hill Mill on October 23, 1990. The fact that Colina Oro Molina's on-site Mill Superintendent was totally incapable of managing the Gold Hill Mill quickly became apparent to anyone in contact with J. Wayne Tatman. He had convinced his naive and very gullible sister that he could make her tens of millions of dollars by processing just a few thousand tons of platinum, palladium and gold ore from a secret placer deposit he owned if he only had access to the Gold Hill Mill's processing equipment. When this ridiculous geologic impossibility came to naught, the owners of the Cash Mine refused to ship any ore to the mill until it was competently managed. Shortly after this, Colina Oro Molina began importing ore from all over the place in clear violation of the original State and County Permits. Every serious violation at the Gold Hill Mill dates from Mr. Tatman's appointment to a position that he proved entirely unsuited for to every observer except his devoted sister. In almost every instance, the undersigned individual was responsible for alerting the Division of Reclamation, the Boulder County Land Use Department, and the Gold Hill Committee on Mining & the Environment of J. Wayne Tatman's permit violations. This is readily discernible to anyone who looks through the correspondence on file with the Division of Reclamation regarding this permit. At no time did the owners of the mines in this district ever attempt to import ore from off-site. The only material that was ever brought to the mill from any site other than the Cash Mine was imported there by Colina Oro Molina. When J. Wayne Tatman finally departed the territory in 1997, the 1