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COLORADO MILLING COMPANY, LLC P.O. Box 1523 Longmont, Colorado 8050 Chris and Leslie Finn December 29, 2018 960 Pine Street Gold Hill Boulder, Colorado 80302 Chris and Leslie Finn: The Colorado Milling Company, LLC is herewith responding to your letter 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. Your comment that "the mining company chose to build and operate the pipeline outside of its legal boundaries" is not supported by the records on file with the Colorado Division of Mining, Reclamation and Safety. The Left Hand Creek Pump Station, Water Pipeline, and the Times Mine Adit portal were all permitted by the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board on September 26, 1985. At that time, the Division of Reclamation and Mining did not require the Gold Hill Mill's Waterline and the Times Mine's portal to be included in the boundaries of the mill permit,because there was very little surface disturbance involved with the installation of the Waterline. However, removal of the pipeline was included in the amount of the permit bonding calculations.This mining company is actually following the original, approved plan for obtaining a legal source of process water for milling operations with this Application for an Amendment to the Gold Hill Mill Permit. Your assertion" that the mining company tried to bring in ore from off-site tailings, shows a lack of understanding of where their legal limits stands" is also not borne out by an honest examination of the operational history of this property. The 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 1