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L.F. Brown & ,y, ` ~ Associates Inc. I°' 3473 D ~'. Road Palisade, CO 81526 March 8, 2004 Mr. Carl Mount & Ms. Erica Crosby Division of Minerals and Geology 1313 Sherman St., Rm. 215 Denver, CO 80203 RECEIVED MAR O S 2004 Division of Minewls & Geoie9Y (970) 464-1171 Re: Application to Convert Construction Materials Limited Impact (110) Permit # M1998-052 for the Rock Island Operation to a Regular (112) Construction Materials Permft Dear Mr. Mount: Attached is a Conversion Application to Convert the Construction Materials Limited Impact (110) Permit # M1998-052 for the Rock Island Operation to a Regular (112) Construction Materials Permit as required by the Colorado Revised Statutes 1973, 3432.5-101, et seq. and by the Construction Material Rules and Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board. The situation is one wherein previously mined placer dredge tailing (spoils) up the Swan River near Breckenridge, Colorado will continue to be put to a benefical use as aggregate products. Such operations are fairly common in the Breckenridge area. This permit will simply extend the operation upstream a short distance. We have discussed this operation a number of times with you and Erica has been to the site on more than one occasion. A brief history of recent construction materials activities on the site is that the site was originally owned by B&B Mining and leased to Alpine Rock. In 1993, Alpine Rock obtained a 112 permit (# M-93- 035) to mine 352 acres in the area, including this site, and their right-to-enter was a lease from then owner B&B Mining. Subsequently, Rock Island Land Company, LLC (RILC) purchased the property from B&B Mining and, in 1998, obtained a 110 Permit (# M 1998-052) to mine the area. RILC had been mining the placer dredge tailing since obtaining the permit, and, in 2002, obtained release of reclamation liability on 7.96 acres of the permit, leaving 1.94 acres intact Then, in 2003 we amended the existing permit by adding 8.00 acres to the permit. Now we wish to convert to a 112 permit under a new permiee, Everist Materials, LLC. This permit covers all of the areas previously permitted by RILC. As far as we are aware, Alpine Rock's permit also still encompasses this entire area. However, you have indicated that DMG's fundamental charge is to ensure reclamation of mined lands and that having two permits on the same parcel only increases the assurance that those mined lands would be reclaimed. Therefore, DMG has no problem with the fact that two permits sometimes overlap and encompass the same piece of property. Nothing has changed at the site. Therefore, this Permit Application is basically an edited version of the original application submitted in 1998.