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STATE OF COLORADO <br />MINED LAND RECLAMATION BOARD <br />DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES <br />IN THE MATTER OF: Las Animas County }NOTICE OF V10[ATION MV-96-061 <br />200 E. First, Room 104 ) AND <br />Trinidad, CO $1082-0000 ) CEASE AND DESIST ORDER <br />TO: Las Animas County and all other persons engaged in or owning or controlling the following operation: <br />Shannon Pit, M-79-163. <br />FINDINGS OF FACT <br />Pursuant to the authority vested in the State of Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board by C.R.S. 34-32.5-124, <br />the Board hereby makes the following findings of fact: <br />1. Las Animas County is permitted to conduct a construction material extraction mining operation under the <br />terms of Permit M-79-163 located in Section L5, Township 33.5, Range 53.W, 06th Prime Meridian, in <br />Las Animas County, Colorado. <br />2. The Mined Land Reclamation Board conducted a Formal Public Heazing on November 13, 1996 [o <br />consider possible violation of the tetras of Permit M-79-163 and C.R.S. 34-32.5-101 et sea. <br />3. The Division of Minerals and Geology presented evidence at the Formal Public Hearing on <br />November 13, 1996, demonstrating that: <br />Las Animas County had failed to protect areas outside the affected land of the Shannon Pi[ <br />(Permit M-79-163) from damage during the mining operation. <br />NOTICE OF VIOLATION <br />Based upon these same Findings of Fact and in accordance with C.R.S. 34-32.5-124(6), the Colorado Mined Land <br />Reclamation Boazd hereby finds Las Animas County to be in violation of Permit M-79-163, <br />C.R.S. 34-32.5-116(4)(1). <br />