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05108/97 THU 10:35 FAI 303 441 4525 BOULDER COUNTY COU 10 002 <br /> Post Ofte Box 471 •Boulder,Colorado 80906 <br /> Boulder Board of County Commissioners <br /> County 13th✓k Pearl Streets•Boulder County Courthouse•Boulder.Colorado 80302•(303)441.9500 <br /> May 8, 1997 <br /> BY FAX (#832-8106) AND REGULAR MAIL <br /> Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board <br /> Division of Minerals and Geology <br /> ATTN: Gregg Squire, Environmental Protection Specialist <br /> 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br /> Denver, CO 80203 <br /> RE: Supplemental Objections to Western Mobile's Application to <br /> Amend Regular Reclamation Permit M-61-302 for the De,rpe Farm <br /> Pit <br /> Dear Board Members and Division of Minerals and Geology Staff: <br /> The purpose of this letter is to follow up on the informal <br /> prehearing conference on the above-referenced application, which <br /> staff representatives of the Board of County Commissioners <br /> attended at your offices on May 6, 1997. Please consider this <br /> letter to be a letter of objection supplementing our initial <br /> letter of objection on this application dated April 17, 1997. We <br /> are submitting this supplemental letter within five days <br /> following the informal prehearing conference, as your rules <br /> require. <br /> We have two additional objections to make to the ame'�dment <br /> application. First, the amendment application is deficient in <br /> that it does not include the levee embankment (or so-called berm) <br /> which predated the original application for the Deepe Farm Pit, <br /> but has been substantially modified during the permit's term. We <br /> included this objection in our April 17 letter_ However, we . <br /> learned at the May 6 conference that Western Mobile, following <br /> the submission of the pending amendment, applied for a "technical <br /> revision" to the plan to include certain proposed changes to the <br /> berm. Apparently the DMG staff received the proposed technical <br /> revision on the morning of the May 6 prehearing conference. <br /> Needless to say we are disturbed by this unexpected development. <br /> It appears to us to be an end-run around the amendment process <br /> which we had assumed would be the appropriate forum for <br /> addressing the serious floodplain issues related to the berm. <br /> 1 <br /> Jo L Mendez Ronoid K Stewart Pal Danish <br /> County Corrmwoner CO tyCommistloner County Comrbldoner <br />