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. ~ . <br />BEFORE THE <br />UNITED STATF,S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR <br />OFFICE OF HEARINGS AND APPEALS <br />BOARD OF LAND APPEALS <br />KERR COAL COMPANY, <br />APPELLANT, <br />v. <br />OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING <br />RECLAMATION AND <br />ENFORCEMENT <br />APPELLEE, <br />IBLA Docket No. 94-799 <br />111 IIIIIIIIIIIII111 <br />Appeal from Denial of Application <br />for Temporary Relief <br />Notice of Violation <br />No. 94-020-352-003 <br />Marr Strip Mine <br />Permit No. C-80-006(COlorado) <br />----------------------------------------------------------------- <br />DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY'S BRT_EF <br />IN SUPPORT OF APPEAL FROM DENIAL OF APPLICATION FOR TEMPORARY <br />RELIEF AND OF MOTION FOR INTERIM TEMPORARY RELIEF <br />------------------------------------------------------------'---- <br />Intervenor, Division of Minerals and Geology ("DMG") sub- <br />mits the following brief in support of the appeal of the denial <br />of temporary relief and of the motion for interim temporary re- <br />lief. <br />I. STATEMENT OF THE CASE AND FACTS <br />In 1980, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and En- <br />forcemeat ("OSM") and the DMG entered a cooperative agreement <br />whereby the DMG became the primary authority to regulate mining <br />