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Ocwbcr zu. zo<xl <br />IIastr. Resources, inc. <br />3R00 ('ounty Road f:39 <br />Trinidad, CO S LUSZ <br />Golden Eagle Miter, C-R 1-0 13 <br />Ciliirn complaint totlow•up <br />NUV 00-140-116-001, Ternuuzt[on action <br />October I R, 2900 <br />This Mine Site Evalu:uiuu ~,tspcct:or. Repoli (MSEiR) i. intcndul as an administrative action ro <br />trrnamil a tcrminarwn notice for Koticc of Violnuon (KOV) 00-I40-1 1C-0(11, violation 1 of I. <br />The NOV wtrs issued to Basin Resour:cs,lnC. (1;351n) LLti a I~sUII of a citizen complaint follow-up <br />insprc:tion conducted on September 22. 7.000. The inspection was required by an Interior Board <br />of Land Appeals (iHLA) ~,rdrr dated July 2t5, 2(1(10. This iBI.,++ c)ecisinn regarding 1BLA case <br />9fi-91 found against a previous Office of Surface Mining (OSMI, VJesteru Regional Coonlinating <br />Center (WRCC). Regional Director's decision regarding the lino! disposition of citizen complaint <br />No. CC-93-020-008. The iF3LA dxiston determined that a violatto;t of Colorado Rulc 4.20.3(2) <br />occurred as a result of subsidence damage to the cotnplttinan['s occupied residential dwelling. <br />"Cttis MSE1R is :also intendre! !ct clarify that tltc subsidence damage cited in the above NO\' is the <br />subsidence damage which wrs alleged in the original 1993 ctuzcn comp:aint noted above. This <br />was subsidenct damage to the complainant's occupied residential dwelling, as determined by the <br />shove iBLA decision, which w:u b:ued on 1493 dtn,ugt, 1995 i,tvesug:uions conducted by USM, <br />the Colorado Div;sion r,f Minr.rais and Gt:clogy (DMG), the complainant's consultantx; and <br />testimony given in a 199'7 Slat: civil action hmu~tttt by the complainants and described below. <br />Basin Resources, lnc.:cspnndcd to the O~~f Notice oC Viuiarion via letter dated October 4. <br />20(1(1. (n their letter. Basin crates that the ll3LA decision relied on findings made by u trial court <br />in Trinidad, Colorado (See Tawm v. Basin l~snurt:es. Ine•- Cate tio. 9?CV 127, Dist. Ct.. Las <br />Animas County- Colorado) in a : ivil action brought by the complainants against Basin. <br />fiasin states tlx subsidence damage violation cited in tlic NOV would be abated if Basin were to <br />eotnpensate the comp!aittants for "...the diminution in value resulring from subsidence." as statt~ <br />in [he NOV. Baffin states tha•. pursuant cn the above trial coup iudgemcnt, they have provided <br />cotnoc;nsation to the complainaets for the full amount e,f diminution in value resulting front <br />substdcttcc. As described in the State court dreis+tm : "Damages [o the residence include the cost <br />of parr repairs and cost of forces repairs. and have cau+ed :: diminution of value of the property. <br />Tatums hzvc epcm 31~.`+1U attempting repairs of the pmprry tmd will rK required to spend <br />addiliunul >~ms to cumpleteh ro5tpr:. the existing dama¢e cau.~e by the suhsidena. Plaintiffs <br />have thus si:ifered ..lose in U:e emounr of °;46;100." <br />