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appropriate uses they were capable of supporting before subsidence, to the extent technologically and economically feasible. (b) (I) Promptly repair, rehabilitate, restore, or replace damaged occupied residential dwellings and related structures or noncommercial buildings; or (b) (ii) Compensate the owner of the damaged occupied residential dwelling and related structure or noncommercial building in the full amount of the diminution in value resulting from the subsidence. Compensation may be accomplished by the purchase, prior to mining, of a noncancellable, premium-prepaid insurance policy. The Mautz' description of surface impacts of subsidence include: • A spring no longer surfaces at a location where water collection improvements had been made. • Roads are impassable because of subsidence cracks. Road drainage has been altered by cracking. • A cabin has been damaged by subsidence. • Subsidence has initiated land slides. A drill pad on the top of Jumbo Mountain has slid approximately 150' down the mountain. • A surveyed property boundary fence has slid down slope damaging the fence and moving off the survey line. • The area of Muffler Rock has started active sliding caused by subsidence resulting in a danger to the public, livestock, and property. • The value of the property has been reduced as evidenced by real estate appraisals. • The Mautz' have also claimed that the cracks and slides are pervasive enough that they have canceled horse pack trips into the area and they are afraid to run livestock into the area; both are sources of their livelihood. Grazing is an identified post-mining land use. The complaint further alleges what appears to be a violation of Colorado Rule 2.03.6(1): Each application shall contain a complete and detailed legal description of the proposed permit boundary, a description of the documents upon which the applicant bases his or her legal right to enter and begin surface coal mining operations in the permit area, and a statement as to whether that right is the subject of pending litigation. The description shall identify those documents by type and date of execution, identify the specific lands to which the document pertains, and explain the legal rights claimed by the applicant. The Mautz' allege that MCC constructed an underground development waste bank on their property without their consent. In doing so, MCC also destroyed a road.