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November 11, 1994 Pueblo County "~ Department of Planning and Development Pueblo County Courthouse Tenth and Main Streets Pueblo, Colorado 81003-2947 Gentlemen: RE: SUP 570, Revision We are in the process of updating our MLRB mining permit with the Division of Minerals and Geology. As part of our revised permit we will be increasing the area included in our permit which will also increase the area included in. our Special Use Permit with the County. Attached are various maps indicating the areas to be included in our mining permit as well as our plant site area. Since our plant uses aggregates from many sources it is our intention to exclude the plant area from the MLRB permit area. The plant site area is being enlarged somewhat to allow use to expand our operations at the plant. The pit are being permitted will not all be excavated and used as pit area. The vast majority of the area will essentially not be disturbed. We are permitting the entire area in order to reduce the disputes with the MLRB concerning disturbed areas. Their attitude in the past is that if they found vehicle tracks outside the pit boundaries then they considered that associated with mining activities and took the attitude that we were operating outside the pit boundaries. By permitting the entire area we will have some flexibility as to stockpile sites, staging areas, and support facilities. We currently have enough water rights dedicated to evaporation loss of exposed groundwater to augment approximately 33 acres of groundwater surface area. we intend to work the current excavation area to form approximately a twenty (20) acre lake. The new excavation area will be limited to 13 acres until we can gain approval of an augmentation plan that will permit more area, ultimate size of this excavation will also be approximately EXHIBIT -_~~a ..