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L.F. Brown & ~~ Associates Inc. ,;~,,~, f .+"~'~ 3473 D ~'. Road Palisade, CO 81528 June 21, 2003 Mr. Carl Mount & Ms. Erica Crosby Division of Minerals and Geology 1313 Sherman St., Rm. 215 Denver, CO 80203 JUfV 2 7 1003 Division ~/Minerals and Geology Re: Amendment to Construction Materials Limited Impad (110) Permit for the Rod< Island Operation - Permit # M 1998-052 Dear Mr. Mount: Attached is an Amendment Application fto the Rock Island Land Company, LLC (RILC) Construction Materials Limited Impact (110) Permit for the Rods Island Operation as required by the Colorado Revised Statutes 1973, 34-32.5-101, et seq. and by the Construction Material Rules and Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board. (970) 464.1171 The situation is one wherein previously mined placer dredge tailing (spoils) up the Swan River near Breckenridge, Colorado will continue to be put to a benefidat use as aggregate products. Such operations are fairly common in the Breckenridge area. This amendment will simply extend the operation upstream a short distance. We have discussed this operation a number of times with you and Erica has been to the site on more than one occasion. A brief history of recent construction materials activities on the site is that the site was originally owned by 8&B Mining and leased to Alpine Rock. In 1993, Alpine Rock obtained a 112 permit (# M-93-035) to mine 352 acres in the area, including this site, and their right-to-enter was a lease from B&B Mining. Subsequent)y, RILC purchased the property from B&B Mining and, in 1998, obtained a 110 Permit (# M 1998-052} to mine the area. As far as we are aware, Alpine Rock's permit still encompasses this area. However, you have indicated that DMG's fundamental charge is to ensure reclamation of mined lands and that having two permits on the same parcel only increases the assurance chat those mined lands would be reclaimed. Therefore, DMG has no problem with the fact that two permts sometimes overlap and encompass the same piece of property. RILC has been mining the placer dredge tailing since obtaining the permit, and, late last year, obtained release of reclamation liability on 7.96 acres of the permit, leaving 1.94 acres intact We now wish to amend the existing permit by adding an additional 8.00 acres on to the end of the permit as shown in the attached application and maps, which will bring the permit area back to 9.94 acres. Nothing has changed at the site. Therefore, this Amendment is basically an edited version of the original application submitted in 1998. We hope the Amendment meets with your approval. I look forward to working with you again. Please call with any questions. Youprs Very Truly, 7`~-p ~' ~- Larry F'! Brown, Ph.D. President, L.F. Brown & Assoc. Inc.