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October 7, 2020 <br /> Mr. Means and Mr. Scott <br /> Page 2 <br /> Wetland and its close physical proximity to the MCRA Mine processing facility (aka Lake 6), the <br /> water treatment facilities,the CDPHE Outfalls, and the mining areas for the MCRA Mine. <br /> Peak filed an application with the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br /> (DRMS) for a permit (File No. M2020041)to construct a new mine, Peak Ranch Resource Mine <br /> (PRR Mine), about six miles north of Eagle's Nest Mountain Ranch. The application for the proposed <br /> PRR Mine states that Peak will extract gravel raw materials at the PRR Mine and transport the <br /> extracted raw materials to the MCRA Mine for processing into construction products including sand, <br /> gravel, aggregate, fill, asphalt, concrete,and road base. <br /> ENMR objects to Peak's application for the PRR because the application is incomplete and <br /> misleading, among other things. The application does not provide any assessment of the impacts of <br /> processing the raw materials to be extracted at the PRR Mine and transported to the MCRA Mine. By <br /> Peak's own admission in the application, mining aggregate at the proposed PRR Mine would not be <br /> possible without an off-site processing facility. The MCRA Mine is Peak's proposed processing <br /> facility. Therefore, the MCRA Mine and the proposed PRR Mine are inextricably related and <br /> concomitant. The mining permit for the MCRA Mine does not contemplate or consider processing <br /> raw materials from off-site sources such as the proposed PRR Mine. The potential environmental <br /> impacts of the additional processing at the MCRA Mine are significant enough that those impacts <br /> should be addressed in the PRR Mine application. Therefore,we respectfully request the following: <br /> 1. DRMS postpones consideration of or denies the PRR Mine application unless and until Peak <br /> provides a full assessment of the environmental impacts of processing raw materials to be <br /> extracted from the PRR Mine at the MRCA Mine processing facility; <br /> 2. DRMS requires Peak to submit a concurrent application for an Amendment to Mining Permit <br /> M1996-049 (MCRAM) that addresses processing the raw materials to be extracted from the <br /> proposed PPR Mine or any other off-site sources, which Mining Permit does not currently <br /> contemplate or consider processing materials from any off-site sources; and <br /> 3. DRMS designates Eagle's Nest Mountain Ranch party status with respect to the application. <br /> {00101951) <br />