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<br />from Alamosa may not comparable. Battle Mountain Gold is <br />making assumptions with sixty-seven (67) year old data based <br />on weather averages for a city twenty-eight (28) miles from the <br />mine site. Alamosa has the lowest elevation in the San Luis <br />Valley; it has the highest summer temperatures; it is subject <br />to different wind patterns and speeds; it is not nestled in Lhe <br />Sange de Cristo Mountains; soil freeze zones are different. The <br />differences between San Luis and Alamosa abound. If the <br />meteorological fiyures used by Battle Mountain Gold are <br />inaccurate, then all assumptions covering rainfall and <br />evaporation rates must be recalculated (specifically alluding to <br />meteorological data in Sections F and K of Che revised plan]. <br />1 also protest the issuance of a mining permit to [cattle <br />Mountain Gold based on the MLRB's own regulations stipulating <br />that water rights must be secured before a mining plan can be <br />certified. How can Lhis plan be considered when no water rights <br />have been secured? How can you allow Battle Mountain Gold to <br />disturb the environment of the Rito Seco if the necessary water <br />for the milling process has oat been legally secured? if Battle <br />Mountain Gold does not secure the water needed to mill the ore <br />from the Rito Seco, will all the destruction that is now <br />occurring (road construction, site preparation, stream <br />crossings) have been necessary? It is my understanding that <br />the mining permit process is designed to protect Colorado's <br />ecological and financial interests. How can the destruction of <br />our most valuable asset, the natural beauty of our• State, be <br />placed in jeopardy by not enforcing Ml_RB regulations? !n who's <br />best interest is this waiver of regulations made? Certainly it <br />can not be in the best interest of the people of San Luis and <br />Colorado. <br />{ request that a FpRMAL PUBL/CHEs(Rl1~/Gbe heldi here in <br />San Luis. The citizens of our county and city must be inc{uded <br />{n this informations{ process, and ho{ding hearings outside San <br />Luis does not serve the best interests of the {oca{yi-Li;~ens. <br />tf <br />gel l~. Gomez <br />{ 7 Church P{ace, Sox 303 <br />San Luis, CO 8 f { 52 <br />