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wastewater treatment plant and its associated buildings, Cleaz Creek Convenience Store sewage lines and improvements, Silver Dollar Metropolitan District light poles and utility lines along Colorado Highway 119. Tn addition, the Applicant has committed to conducting pre-blast surveys of potentially affected structures pursuant to Division rules, with notices and survey requests to be sent to the owners of such structures at least 30 days prior to blasting. The surveys will be completed and submitted to the Division prior to initiation of blasting. 11. Party objectors Black Hawk/Central City Sanitation District and Silver Dollar Mctropolitan District commissioned a separate blast vibration analysis prepared by Joseph Bernosky of Leonard Rice Engineers, Inc. dated November 10, 2005 ("Rice Report"). The Rice Report analyzes the risk from blasting activities to the Black HawklCentraf City Sanitation District's wastewater treatment plant, located across Highway 1 l9 from the proposed quarry, and the Silver Dollaz Metropolitan District's lighting structures, located adjacent to Highway 119. The Rice Report concludes that these facilities aze far more sensitive receptors than the residential structures used as baseline indicators in standard blasting analyses and that blasting vibrations from mining operations pose a threat [o components of the wastewater treatment plant and light poles lamps. 12. In a review of the Rice Report prepared by a Division specialist on November 21, 2005, the Division concludes that there is no possibility, absent anon-compliant event, that vibration levels will exceed commonly acceptable levels. The Division's analysis also concludes that if the wastewater treatment plant and light poles are vulnerable to damage from proposed blasting, they are much more vulnerable to ordinary daily vibrations ,vIMRR Board Order, M-2004-067 2677