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~ SENT BY: ENVIRON DEFENSE; <br />~, ': yr <br />25-96 B:tSAM; 3034408052 => . 303 B32 8106; fj3/3 <br />RECEIVrn r••.~ c ~,;; <br />JAN ~ 3 1996 <br />new deadline was not ntd. At the December hearing the Board, yet again, did not revdRB/t(i <br />the permit. <br />The levying of a line is a necessaq•, fiat insufficient, response tier CUM Inc.'s <br />umWmaGious behavior. The company's contempt for this Board, 1'ur the law Board <br />cnturces, and for the public the Board represents, can only Fn: halted by revocation of its <br />Gold Hill permit. <br />Failure to revoke the permit would scl a precedent with potentially dire <br />cunsequcnces. t~or Hartley's mismanagement at Ciold [Lill to he repeated in come new <br />form at the Mogul Tunnel, whose dump }x~rdcrs Boulder Creek, could alFect the water <br />supplies of Lldora, Nederland and Boulder. I'or the Gold Hill Mill pancm to be repeated <br />at rile Franklin Mill near Idaho Springs, whteh recently engaged the services of both <br />Hartley and Wayne 'Caiman, could be even more serious. <br />Before lire repeated spills from lire Geld Ilill Mill under Iris nranagcmcnt, Tatman <br />left a trail of environmental problems across the states ol'Nevada., Uregon and <br />Washington, including a national priority superlund site with cyanide pollutio» at <br />Washington's Silver Mountain Minr. bike the Silver Mountain operation, the Franklin <br />Mill uses a cyanide process. The Board can imagine the reperctusions of a Gold-Hill- <br />srylc lailure at a cyanide operation at Idaho Sprin},rs. Coloradans have learned the <br />importance of extreme caution in dealing such toxic chemicals. <br />OI'cuursc the Division of Minerals and Geology will continue oversight of the <br />Franklin Mill and the Mogul 'I'unncl. But oversight without enforcement dentoralizcs the <br />staff, legitimate mining imcrests, and the public, and encourages irresponsible mining <br />operations like that at Gold Hill. The Board now has a rare opportunity to discourage <br />future mining malpractice by linally enforcing the law at Gold EEill. l~ailurc to revoke <br />CUM inc.'s chronically abused permit would send a message to the mining commuuiry, <br />to other government agencies, to the press, and to the public that there is no limit to the <br />MLRB's tuler;ttion of mining malpractice. <br />f'ricnds of kldora Valley hereby requests that the Mtned Land Reclamation Board <br />revoke CUM, Inc,'s Gold Eiill Mill permit. <br />Sincerely/, <br />,... "~ <br />Park Teter <br />Coordinator, PLV <br />