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consistent with this article or in accordance, to the extent practicable, with the <br />procedure in the district courts." C.R.S. § 24-4-105(4). An "agency" is defined <br />under the APA as "any board, bureau, commission, department, institution, division, <br />section or officer of the state ...." C.R.S. § 24-4-102(3). <br />3. The Board, as an agency of the State under the APA, is authorized to regulate the course of <br />proceedings, to issue appropriate orders to control the subsequent course of its <br />proceedings, and to take any other action authorized by agency rule consistent with the <br />APA. <br />4. The Petitioner's motion states that most of the parties and their representatives, including the <br />Applicant, the Applicant's attorney, the Applicants' engineer and witnesses, the objectors, <br />the objectors' attorneys, and the objectors' witnesses, reside in or around Cortez. The <br />Petitioner was unable to reach the Applicant's counsel regarding the proposed change of <br />venue, but the Boazd received a letter dated October 7, 2003 from the Applicant's counsel <br />indicating that the Applicant had no objection to holding the hearing in either Cortez or <br />Denver. <br />5. The Boazd notes that its October meeting is scheduled to take place over the course of two <br />days, October 29 and October 30. The Board's tentative agenda identifies nine sepazate <br />formal public hearings that are to be held over that two-day period. The Division of <br />Minerals and Geology ("Division") estimates that one of those nine formal public hearings <br />will take up an entire day and will be held in Denver. If the location of the meeting for the <br />remaining day is changed from Denver to Cortez, it would mean that seven other formal <br />public hearings would be heazd in Cortez in addition to the Applicant's matter. Thus, the <br />