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-1oa- MR. DANIEL SON: Mr. Cohen, are you making same kind of argunent that if the water were to be withdrawn from one of these various locally available sources that that could somehow impact the water quality of the remaining flow or do you just not know or...1 MR. N. CDHEN: I think Mr. Renner's comments last -- at the hearing last month and I -- and some other questions, I'll have to find this mow 'cause I'm a little out of sequence, but I think from the comments and concerns of the Staff, I think its clear that -- that their concern is whether or not there's gonna be any -- thanks -- any -- whether the -- the water rights are going to be affected perhaps by the dewatering of the Rito Seco into the open pit or other impacts. And, I think that whether or not the water that they're the Perched Acquifer as it's been referred to -- whether or not it's been established that that is, in fact, perched and isolated or whether it corronunicates with other aquifers is a question that hasn't fully been answered • which might impact this -- the answer to your question. I certainly am not prepared to answer it, but I think it's an issue that needs to be investigated by someone before the permit's issued. Because, those water rights downstream would be affected, in that case. (INAUDIBLE CONVERSATION.) MR. MASSE Y: Is it -- can I respond kinds in a general way to this whole issue? MR. JDUFLAS: Yes. MR. MASSEY: The outset, you know, I think Battle Mountain is operating under the policy that has been followed by this Board for 10 or 15 years now, since the implementation of the Statute, and that is that these are parallel permitting processes that an operator faces when he comes to do business in Colorado. They're not intended to be sequenced, they never have intended to • be sequenced, I -- as I mentioned earlier, I believe their is case law that