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r <br /> <br />RECEIVED <br />September 3, 1990 <br />Colorado Mined Land <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver. CO 80203 <br />Dear Sir, <br />_-_ <br />I~II~~IIII~IIIIII~I <br />F'eclamation Board <br />~vF C-~7 <br />c~,) a/ ,l o. ~0~~ <br />SEP 5 1990 <br />Mined Land <br />Reclamation Division <br />This letter is written in response to a legal Notice (PC90105) <br />that appeared in the "Park County Republican and Fairplay Flume" <br />of August this year. <br />In this Notice M and. M Mining Co. of Fairplay announces that it <br />has filed with your Eloard for a Permit to mine the land specified <br />in the notice until the year 2090. <br />I note this with horror. We were forced to leave our home in <br />Fairplay because of this mine and Sanborn's (the latter about one <br />half mile south of M and M on Colorado Route 9). <br />I called your office several times, the EPA, and other <br />governmental service~• in Denver to protest what these operations <br />were doing to the er.~vironment and the value of the land in their <br />vicinity. Each time I called I was told the power to control any <br />of this was in the hand of the Board of Commissioners of Park <br />County. Several of us protested to the Board, whose response was <br />that regulations were being drafted by a representative group of <br />County residents. ~'he Commissioners subsequently approved these <br />regulations, which were in harmony with State guidelines. <br />Subsequent to that the miners in the county protested--even <br />though they had been requested to present their views while the <br />new regulations were being drafted. This they did not do. But <br />the Commissioners, nevertheless, rescinded its approval without <br />public discussion. ~'he rewriting was put in the hands of a group <br />heavily loaded with miners. <br />I give you this brief history to show that local residents have <br />no protection either by virtue of regulations or their <br />Commissioners. <br />It is quite possible• that local residents are even subsidizing <br />these mining operations. Note that according to Mr. Wissel, <br />County Assessor, AIL the mines of the County contribute but one <br />percent (1~) to the C'ounty's revenue. If one factors in the cost <br />of maintaining roads (which their heavy trucks use every day), <br />the health clinic, and the schools for these operations, it is <br />possible that the net cash flow the County sees because of these <br />mines is negative. <br />Note also that a suit. in Ohio brought against a nuclear operation <br />was resolved in favor of the aggrieved, who showed only that the <br />property values had decreased an that they suffered severe mental <br />