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<br />BEFORE THE MINED LAND RECLAMATION B0.4RD <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br />FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, AND ORDER <br />IN THE MATTER OF GRAND JUNCTION PIPE AND SUPPLY CO., DELTA PAVING <br />GRAVEL PIT, FIl.E NO M-98-10~. CONSIDERATION OF 1 l2 MINING PERMIT <br />APPLICATION <br />THIS MATTER having come before the Mined Land Reclamation Board ("the Board") on April <br />29, 1999, for a hearing, the Board makes the following Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, <br />and enters the following Order: <br />FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW <br />1. On January 4, 1999, Grand Junction Pipe and Supply Co., ("GJPS") filed a 112 <br />permit application with the Division for the Delta Paving Gravel Pit site in Delta County, Secs. 3 <br />and 10, T15S, R98S, for a surface sand and gravel operation and materials processing site. <br />2. As a result of comments and objections received the Division held and informal <br />conference in Delta, Colorado on March 12, 1999. At the informal conference, the Division, the <br />applicant, and the commenting and objecting parties discussed who would be parties and what <br />issued the Board would consider. <br />3. On April 5, 1999, the Division issued its recommendation to approve the permit <br />application. On April 7, 1999, the Division mailed its approval recommendation rational to all <br />the parties, addressing the objections and concerns raised during the public comment and <br />informal conference phases. <br />4. On April 16, 1999, apre-hearing conference was held in Delta, Colorado, to <br />verify the list of parties and to narrow and distill the issues to be considered by the Board at the <br />final hearing. Barbara Green presided as pre-hearing conference officer. As a result of the pre- <br />hearing conference, a draft pre-hearing order was generated, listing the parties and outlining the <br />schedule and time allotments for presentations at the final hearing. <br />5. The Board held the final hearing in this matter on April 29, 1999, in Denver, <br />Colorado. The only party in attendance was GJPS. The Division attended as staff to the Board. <br />The Board adopted the pre-hearing conference order as presented. <br />6. The Division and GJPS presented materials in support of approving the permit <br />application. The Division described [o [he Board how the permit application met the <br />