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Plaintiffs judicial review challenge to the Boazd's order is. in essence. a challenge to the Board's <br />authority to interpret its jurisdiction under an organic statute. As such, the Plaintiffs. in order to <br />prevail. will have to prove to this Court that the Board's interpretation was wrong. <br />[T]he interpretation placed upon a starute by the agency vested with authority to <br />administer or to enforce that statute is entitled to deference, provided the interpretation adopted <br />is a reasonable one.'' Gr n;~=-e •~ Colorado Oil zna !=as Com^'::, 7 P3.d 1050, 1053 (Colo. <br />App. 1999) (citing Industrial Claim Appeals Office v. Orth, 965 P.2d 1246 (Colo. 1998)). See <br />also Rvals v. St. Marv-Corwin Renional Medical Center, 10 P.3d 654, 660 (Colo. 2000) (Court <br />will "defer to an agency's own interpretation of its statutory mandate."); Colorado State <br />Personnel Boazd v. Department of Corrections, 988 P.2d 1147, 1 I ~ 1 (Colo. ] 999) (Court gives <br />deference to agency's reasonable interpretation of its starute "that will assist in lightening the <br />agency's workload and making its decision-making process more efficient ...."). Furthermore, <br />"if a statute is silent or ambiguous with respect to a specific issue, [the Court] give[s] great <br />deference to an agency's interpretation of the statute, looking only to whether the agency's <br />[determination] is based on a pertrrissible construction of the statute." Smith v. Farmers Ins. <br />Exchanee, 9 P.3d 335, 340 (Colo. 2000) (citing Chevron U.S.A.. Inc. v. Natural Resources <br />nPfPnse t'nuncil. Inc., 467 U.S. R37, 843 (19841 and U.S. West. Irc. v. Federal Communications <br />Comm'n, 182 F.3d 1224, 1231 (10'~ Cir. 1999)) (emphasis added). <br />The Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act does not explicitly give the Division <br />the authority to vacate a notice of violation. The statute gives the Division the authority to issue <br />a notice of violation, y 34-33-123(2), C.R.S., and to assess a civil penalty and hold a settlement <br />conference, § 34-33-123(8), C.R.S. On the other hand, the Division's authority to vacate a <br />12 <br />