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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 discernable 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 facility and permit were in complete disarray and his sister was considerably poorer if not much wiser. The next permitted operator of the Gold Hill Mill was ITEC Environmental. This company spent a great deal of time and money addressing the problems created by the aforementioned J. Wayne Tatman. When the price of gold fell below this company's breakeven price, they sold the Gold Hill Mill back to the original owners before they had processed any significant ore through the mill. There were no operational permit violations during the time when ITEC Environmental was in charge of the Gold Hill Mill. Mount Royale Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of a Canadian public company, was the next permitted operator of the Gold Hill Mill. They were only processing at the Gold Hill Mill for approximately eighteen months during 2007 and 2008. Mismanagement and wasteful expenditures doomed this company to failure, but there were no serious permit violations discovered by the Division of Reclamation while this company was operating the Gold Hill Mill. The Colorado Milling Company, LLC has been the permitted operator of the Gold Hill Mill since August 25, 2015 but has not yet begun processing ore in the facility. This company has, however, spent considerable effort and funds cleaning up after the previous operator of the Gold Hill Mill, Mount Royale Ventures. This should be easily discoverable to anyone who simply looks around the millsite. The point of recounting all of this history is to inform and remind your members just who was actually responsible for all of the past problems you are revisiting in your letter. With regard to the other issues that were brought up at the Gold Hill Town Meeting's Special Town Meeting the following answers may be helpful: There are no rusty pipes on the Waterline Easement. All of the pipes that have ever been installed on the Gold Hill Mill Waterline are made of plastic. The original installation of this pipeline and the replacement and improvement of the Waterline were included when the Gold Hill Mill was first permitted on September 26, 1985. The Waterline and Access Easement with Boulder County anticipated that the Left Hand Creek Pump Station, the Water Pipeline and the Times Mine Adit would be maintained, repaired and improved during the unlimited time period of the Easement. I would note that there has not been a single letter addressed or forwarded to anyone associated with any of the permitted operators of the Gold Hill Mill complaining of the condition of the pipes and claiming that they were polluting the land and were a hazard to wildlife and hikers. The Colorado Milling Company, LLC will be removing and replacing the old Waterline after it is granted an Amendment to the previously approved Gold Hill Mill Permit. 2