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Your Phone Number* <br /> Used only to follow up. <br /> 7192140894 <br /> Extension <br /> Alternate Phone Number <br /> Used only to follow up. <br /> Alternate Phone Extension <br /> Connection to Operation <br /> Select all that apply <br /> Land Owner of affected land Structure Owner within 200' of affected land <br /> Mineral Owner ✓ Nearby Resident <br /> Adjacent Land Owner Concerned Citizen <br /> Government Agency Other <br /> DESCRIPTION OF COMMENT OR OBJECTION <br /> (Please be as specific as possioiE, <br /> Comment/Objection Narrative <br /> 1. It is an underground mine but if we've learned anything from Colorado's mining legacy what happens <br /> underground will have surface impacts,often unanticipated,such as Leadville's Yak Tunnel,Silverton's Gold <br /> King Mine and Rio Grande County's Summitville Mine. <br /> 2. Risks for the community more than offset advertised benefits. In the 1950s, positive economic impact was <br /> used to justify the Cotter Uranium Mill but long term costs born by adjoining properties and the community due <br /> to contaminated groundwater,fugitive toxic dust and Superfund Site designation have far exceeded any benefit. <br /> 3.Canon City is poised to become the last gotta-move-there resort town on the Arkansas River in Colorado due <br /> to selfless hard work by economic development proponents and non-profits(e.g. Fremont Adventure <br /> Recreation).Their efforts have overcome Canon City's reputation as a prison and Superfund town.The prisons <br /> are here to stay but a new environmentally destructive mine would undo those efforts. <br /> 4. DRMS has denied permits to protect the property interests of locals such as the two permit applications from <br /> Transit Mix to develop a Hitchrack Ranch Quarry in El Paso County.Granted we don't have a heavyweight such <br /> as El Pomar Foundation in our corner but I'd like to think the division gives equal consideration to every <br /> complainant. <br /> 5.The claimed 90 new jobs are a chimera. Has DRMNS ever seen a mining project whose permit application's <br /> jobs estimate came to fruition?There are many factors outside the mining company's control that determine <br /> employment level. On the other hand, local tourism continues to add jobs and grow government coffers.The <br /> proposed underground gold mine,despite applicant's claims,will negatively impact visitors'impression of the <br /> Royal Gorge Region. <br /> 6. It's ironic that a nearby, newly constructed hiking/biking trail from Tunnel Drive to Fremont Peak will be closed <br /> for bighorn lambing season but Zephyr Gold USA, Ltd.,claims surface activities associated with the <br /> underground mine will have minimal impact. <br /> 7.Twenty years into a mega drought the Bureau of Reclamation recently imposed cutbacks on the Colorado <br /> River for Lower Basin states with cutbacks anticipated for Upper Basin states next year. Under these historic <br /> conditions it is difficult to reconcile a new mine that will use 65M gallons of water per year. <br /> Permit Number* <br /> Enter valid letter and then numbers,for example M122112211 or C123456789. <br /> M2021046 <br /> Permitting Action Type <br /> Select revision type or leave blank if comment pertains to a new permit application or NOI <br /> Permit Type <br /> Hard Rock <br />