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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 be in violation of the provisions of this articles. <br />2 There's no other reason. All the other issues~ai-e ripe. <br />3 Everyone is here and ready to speak to the issue of the <br />4 permit amendment. <br />5 The legislature put that provision in <br />6 there for a reason. It put it in there because t:he <br />7 actions and consequences and the actions that the: board <br />8 found at this last meeting was there was a violation. A <br />9 consequence of that violation is very clear in tt.e <br />10 statute that you cannot approve an amendment, anc. you <br />11 should not be involved in the process of avoidinc the <br />12 legislature's intention by simply continuing the matter <br />13 until you can deem the violation to be cured, which <br />14 brings me to the second point I'd like to make. <br />15 And that is, when is a violation cured? <br />16 The statute says that the key language in the statute is <br />17 whether the operator is found to be currently in <br />18 violation of the provisions of this article. <br />19 I don't think the presentation of a <br />20 corrective action plan is curing a violation. Consider <br />21 what the board was aware of when it found a violation. <br />22 Castle had promised before the last meeting not to do <br />23 certain things, including spilling hundreds of tons of <br />24 rocks off-site. The board found that Castle knowingly <br />25 and repeatedly broke this promise and found it tc be in <br />15 <br />