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a7[NQL BILL Imo. 1989 '! !~ ~_, RFSDIlTiZ(Ii t~D. 1589 A RE~L[TPIQi CF CP~1TIQi 40 Tf~ E70?AISIQi ~ 1Q2~1G ACPi\1ITY Qi Pf~Y AD.~a 70 lIAt~II'100 SPItT~~ FE~RE9LS, the Castle Concrete Concrete Company with a business address of 7250 Alleghany Drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80919, has on March 3, 1989, submitted an application to the Land Reclamation Board at 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215, Denver, Colorado 80203, to amend its regular (112) mining permit at the Snyder Quarry, Permit No. M77-210 under provisions of the Colorado Mined Reclamation Act, C.R.S. Section 34-32-101, et. seg. and the rules promulgated herewith, and FMS, the Snyder Quarry also known as the Black Canyon Quarry or the Manitou ¢iarry contains approximately eighty acres of mined and unmined property located off Colorado Highway 24, a short distance to the north of the City limits of Manitou Springs, and i~AS, the Castle Concrete Company intends to remove all vegetation and soil from approximately 8.36 acres in the northwest corner of their property to enable the mining of limestone for use as a construction material, and FMS, the process of mining the limestone conteng~lates use of a so called benching technique which will facilitate the ultimate reclamation of the acreage, and FMS, the process of reclaiming the acreage after the limestone has been extracted involves the placement of rock spoils and top soil on each bench level to support the growth of grasses, shrubs and trees, and f~~S, from several vantage points throughout the City and the region the mining work will be highly visible to residents and visitors who are extremely sensitive to and offended by, the destruction of natural beauty inherent in the spectacular rock formations surrounding Williams Canyon, and F~tBA.S, the Castle ~ncrete Company stipulates in its application that it will. be impossible to avoid rocks falling into Williams Canyon and that "minor visibility problems" will result from mining the South Peak, and