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<br />Legislative Declaration in <br />Section 34-32.5-102 of The Colorado Land Reclamation Act for the <br />Construction Materials <br />States That: <br />(1) It is declared to be the policy of this state that the extraction of <br />materials and the reclamation of land affected by such extract <br />necessary and proper activities. It is further declared to be t. <br />this state that both such activities should be and are compatib. <br />intent of the general assembly by the enactment of this article I <br />encourage the development of an economically sound and stable <br />construction materials industry and to encourage the orderly c <br />of the state's natural resources, while requiring those persons <br />mining operations to reclaim land affected by such operation <br />affected land may be put to a use beneficial to the people of t <br />is the further intent of the general assembly by the enactment o <br />to conserve natural resources, to aid in the protection of ~ <br />aquatic resources, to establish agricultural, recreational, resi <br />industrial sites, and to protect and promote the health, safety, <br />welfare of the people of this state. <br />(2) The general assembly further declares that it is the intent of t <br />require the development of a mined land reclamation regulator <br />which the economic costs of reclamation measures uti] <br />reasonable relationship to the environmental benefits derive <br />measures. The mined land reclamation board or the div <br />considering the requirements of reclamation measures, shall <br />benefits expected to result from the use of such measures. <br />intent of the general assembly that consideration be given to I <br />reasonableness of the action of the mined land reclamation <br />division. In considering economic reasonableness, the fmanc <br />of an operator shall not be a factor. <br />(3) These Rules shall apply to all operators of existing mining c <br />extract construction materials only, as defined in the statute, <br />operations that engage only in the extraction of construction <br />of <br />>n are both <br />e policy of <br />,. It is the <br />~ foster and <br />mining and <br />involved in <br />so that the <br />is state. It <br />this article <br />ildlife and <br />ential, and <br />and general <br />is article to <br />program in <br />zed bear a <br />from such <br />,ion, when <br />valuate the <br />is also the <br />e economic <br />oard or the <br />il condition <br />rtions that <br />to all new <br />