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Ms. Lemay November 12, 1997 Page Two The landowner of the surface rights is the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The subsurface rights to this land were conveyed to the American Cancer Society of Colorado, Inc. (ACS) and the American Heart Association of Colorado, Inc. (AHA), both are Colorado non-profit organizations. On 10 September 1997, the American Cancer Society and American Heart Association were the Grantors of a Special Warranty Deed to Daren R. Stone and Kathy J. Stone, 24600 County Road P, Cortez, CO. 81321 (Grantees). For a sum of Five Thousand and 00/ 100 dollars ($5,000) the Grantors granted, bargained, sold and conveyed to the Grantees the following real property in Montezuma County: The Mineral Interest Only The oil, gas and other minerals lying in or under or that may be produced from the described land. Correspondence was conducted between Mr. Charles B. Stone, Director of Finance for the American Cancer Society, and Kathy Stone, wife of Darren R. Stone. In the Special Warranty Deed, the Grantors mistakenly granted 320 acres to Daren Stone. In fact, they own mineral rights to approximately 160 acres. We understand from papers filed at the Montezuma County Court House that this sales contract between the Grantors and the Grantees is not finalized until issuance of a pending approval of a Reclamation Permit by the Colorado Department of Minerals and Geology. We request that the Department of Minerals and Geology closely monitor this Application, since there are several integral parts of the Application that seem incomplete, inaccurate or misleading. Some of our concerns are: 8urroundiag Land Uses: On this property there are significant and important cultural resources (ruins, artifacts, and possibly human remains) representing the ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) cultures. This section of the Montezuma Valley represents one of the most significant archaeological regions in America. Less than one mile northeast of this property tie Mud Springs Pueblo, a significant ancestral Puebloan site that has been owned and protected by the Archaeological Conservancy since 1982. About three miles south of the proposed Stone Gravel Pit is Yucca House National Monument, a similar site that has been preserved and protected by the National Parks Service since 1906 and is the first archaeological site in the United States protected by the Antiquities Act.