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DEC-18-2003 15:46 FROM: SALEM MINERRLS INC 3035690156 70:9702475104 P.001~002 <br />^r Durango Office <br />Wallace Erickson <br />Camino del Rio, Rvom 125 <br />utFo, CU $1301 <br />'felefax 97U-247.5104 <br />Todd C. I•Iennis <br />P,O. Box 474 <br />Silverton, CO 81433 <br />Uecembcr 1$, 2003 <br />Sunnyside Permit M-77-378, Proposed AM -OS <br />e~~~Ea <br />~ 5 ~t~O~ . <br />1 <br />O~G o~`e~O~G o~O°'y <br />O°t o9`'I`~~° <br />O~S~o~ , <br />We objets to the pmpnsed amendment to this M'LRD permit on the following bKOUnds' <br />I. The area of Gladstone, CO is entirely unsuitable lirr apost-mining industrial use designation. <br />Industrial coning does not exist in San Juan County, and any form of industrial dcsi5mation would <br />adversely impact the economic development of San Juan County tlurouglt its tourism and <br />recreational economic. bases <br />2. The area needs to have reclamation requirements especially in terms of ground cover of the <br />barren, high exposure hillsides which are composed of mine dumps and highly acidic Bound, Then <br />xrca cernrinly falls under the definition of affected mine lands in the 1976 Mined I,.and <br />Reclamation Act, and it is certainly under the spirit of the Mined Land Reclamation Act that a site <br />so heavily affected by n»ning activity should receive reclamation in terms of gn,~und cover, <br />grading and water quality issues. I purvhased adjoining land to the permit area basis the <br />reclamation plan in place to be carried out. The desi~mation of an industrial classification with no <br />reclamation of the affected lands at this late date is inapprvpriatu, <br />3. The barren hillsides are not erosion stable in the long tettn, as they are typically approx. a I <br />slope (rather titan the gentler slope rrquircd by MLRq), and may not receive the ongohig <br />maintenance that the site has received ht the past From the operating company. <br />4. We believe That the issues regarding this site are adequately addressed in Amendment 4 of the <br />above referenced permit, and a n:-visitation of these issues is not in the interest of the people of <br />San Juan County. <br />Por San Juan Corp„ <br />~~~~''~-a-.- -` <br />Todd C. Tiwwis, Pres. -~' <br />