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~- - ( (, RECEI!!ED JAN 19 2006 EXCAVATING INC. P.O. Box 790 195 W. Jefferson Hayden. Colorado 81639 (970) 276-3359 (970) 276-3084 Fax Routt County Planning P.O. Box 773749 Steamboat Springs, Co. 80477 _ATTN:_Cazyn Fox- ~ _ _ _ _. _ _ _ RE: Amendment to Special Use Permit PP2000-003 Dear Caryn: Divisimi u. ~~~~~~e~ais and Geology Precision Excavating Inc. is requesting a change to specific condition # 3 that restricts our sales to 180,000 tons per year. Tons sold at our pit are directly related to economic demand in Routt County. In 2005, Precision Excavating provided gravel for numerous projects. Two public projects supplied by our pit were The Reconstruction of Routt County Road # 27 phase III and The McGregor Bridge 902 Replacement. Private projects included The Industrial Park in Hayden and a wide range of miscellaneous projects. Due to our permit restriction, it was necessazy to ask the county for a special project exemption on the County Rd. 27 project in order to continue to supply gravel needs to public and private projects. This was granted through time, effort, and expense to both the County and Precision Excavating Inc. Looking ahead to 2006 and beyond, it makes sense to revise our tonnage restrictions to -more accurately re#leet economic-demand-and-real-publicimpact at our operation.- - Originally the public process developed requirements and placed restrictions due to uncertainties inherent with a new gravel mining permit application. Some items seemed excessive at the time, for example reconstruction and overlay of county road 179 from Highway 40 to the pit entrance. However, in hind sight these improvements have helped to reduce or eliminate conflicts between our operations and the general public. Other restrictions such as start time for hauling, crushing times, etc. continue to be not necessarily what we would like, but have generally helped to relieve public concern about our operation to the point that we were able to haul 66,890 tons out of our pit in September of 2005 without a single complaint or public safety concern. This figure is not a high tonnage in terms of infrastructure or capabilities of our company to manage. More importantly it helps to determine a reasonable new tonnage restriction, if the county still feels a restriction is necessary. Frankly our company would prefer not to have a restriction. Supply and demand, along with the reality of winter in northwest Colorado do