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i t T ~~/ v`O~/^~^/~I /"J/ April 30, 2003 Carl B. Mount Senior Environmental Protection Specialist Mined Land Reclamation Board Division of Minerals and Geology 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, CO 80203 RE: REQUEST FOR REVOCATION OF PERMIT Permittee: Platte Sand & Gravel, L.L.C., S & H Mine Permit Number: M-2000-158 Type of Permit 112c Permit Date: August 10, 2001 Dear Mr. Mount: RECEIVED MAY 0 5.2003 Division ~f Minerals and Geology As a result of our recent telephone conversation, I am submitting a request that the Mined Land Reclamation Board revoke the above referenced mining permit. The Platte Sand & Gravel, L.L.C., which was organized by Tom Sharkey and Krystal Hoffschneider, applied and petitioned Weld County for a Use by Special Review Permit (USR) in order to mine sand and gravel on properties west of Gilcrest and northwest of Platteville in Sections 23-T4N-R67W, 26-T4N-R67W, 34-T4N-R67W, 35-T4N-R67W and in Section 2-F3N- R67W. On October 10, 2001, the Weld County Commissioners refused to issue said permit. In 2002, Tom Sharkey and Krystal Hoffschneider deeded their respective properties to the Platte Trust, and the Platte Trust illegally deeded a small portion of the Hoffschneider property to Tom Sharkey without obtaining a recorded exemption. The Platte Trust and Tom Sharkey petitioned the Town of Milliken to annex their properties in order to obtain a sand and gravel mining (USR) permit and, thereby, circumvent the Weld County Commissioner's denial of a USR permit to the Platte Sand & Gravel, L.L.C. As I explained to you in our telephone conversation, we have serious concerns about a registered archaeological and prehistoric Indian ossuary- SWL8] 3, the Ehrlich Burial Site -that adjoins and probably overflows onto the Platte Trust's (Tom Sharkey's) property in Section 26-T4N- R67W. Please see the enclosed copy of a topographical map that identifies several prehistoric, ~~ historical and archaeological sites that have been registered by the Colorado State Historical Society and/or the State Archaeologist's Office. In their annexation agreement with the Town of Milliken, the Platte Trust and Tom Sharkey have stated that they will donate afive-acre piece of ground that adjoins this Indian ossuary site (and that probably includes part of the Indian ossuary site) as a public park to the Town of Milliken. We believe that the users of a municipal public park will endanger and jeopardize the integrity of this archaeological and prehistoric treasure, and that the park users will vandalize and destroy this archaeological and prehistoric site. A ° ~~~