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<br />stress as a result of i;hat operation. <br />"Nova" on Public Television recently had a one-hour show on the <br />results of mining iii the State of Colorado. This is awful <br />publicity for a state i;hat has pretensions of growth. Park County <br />is the home of many of the mines shown in the film. It is also <br />the home of many strip-mines like M and M. And they are asking <br />for a permit to contirnie these depredations for one hundred years. <br />This is hard to believe. <br />I believe your office should deny this request as outrageous on <br />the face of it; your office might grant a one-year permit subject <br />to year-by-year approval if and only if M and M reclaims as it <br />goes along and confines its operations to reasonable hours, <br />reasonable environmental care, and general good neighborliness. <br />Park County, and par*_icularly the corridor between Fairplay and <br />Alma, are being laid waste by these operations, and to the extent <br />that permission for these operations starts in your office, you <br />have the opportunity to protect this fragile land and to protect <br />the rightful interests of all the residents of this county. A <br />one-hundred-year permi~ grants State permission to wreak havoc to <br />this land. If the Commissioners of Park County and your office do <br />not act responsibly on this matter, I am afraid we are ruined. <br />I would like this let';.er filed with M and M's request; I would <br />like it considered ser:iouslp. <br />Yours sincerely, <br />~~",~~~~ <br />Two postscripts. <br />1. Gov. Romer has seen this area and reacted with shock. <br />2. We still own the home I mentioned. We built it sixteen years <br />before the appearance of these operations. It was our notion that <br />we would retire and live the rest of our lives there. We feel <br />betrayed by the Commissioners and the State of Colorado. <br />cc: Governor Romer <br />Senator Werth <br />