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Qa~e_ei.ght SMR VIEW: BMR, through its subcontractor per Sciences. Inc., hoe Submitted an air quality plan to the Colorado Department of Health. 6MR e.pp2ied for an air emissions permit. The application states that no state or federal standards will be violated. LOCAL CONCERNS: The San Luis Valley is a closed air basin. Thus, increasing levels of particulates in the local atmoephero are a consequence of BMR construction activities and lack of adequate dust control measures. There is already evidence of degraded visual air quality standards.' Long-term health effects of the BMR operation are difficult to predict. but there is enough of a likelihood that the respiratory health of infants and the elderly could be impacted to warrant careful monitoring of air and water quality. The E~'A should require &MR to install, operate, and maintain 2 sufficient number of air and water quality monitoring stations to insure appropriate measures of impacts. These should bo ^perated for at least twenty years after the mine closing. (f) Impacts an National Historic District and "Centennial Farms"i FACT: The town of San Luic has a designated Nations: Historic District. As such, the surrounding cultural landscape and its natural and historic resources (including the San Luic Vega, th• San Luis Feoples Ditch. and other architectural and historic r~Gaurces) are eligible far protection under Title Ono, Bastions 191 and 19 of NEPA. EMh' VIEW: Without sufficient study of the issue, BMR has made no comment on this issue. LDCAL CDNC£RNS: There are uniqur extonuatinq circumstances surrounding this case that justify our call for a thorough federal review. 'First, is the esistence of unique historic and cultural resources in the San Luis National Historic DLstriCt fNHD) and its surroundings. The San Luis NHD 15 ono of Colorado's most valuable histori~_ and cultural resources. The San Luis NHD includes: cl) Multiple Nineteenth Century Hispanic adobe structures whlcn are currently being studied by a resvarcfi team under contract to the Colorado State Historical SociQty. Thv study should result in tl'~e highest concentration of designated historic adobe r•r_hitectural structures in 'the state. The "Stations of the Cross" Shrtnc on San Fedro Mesa is another unique dimension of the arr,hitr.±ctural, artistic, and natural resourco^ of the San Luic NHD :,r ea. Thy San Luis NHD, and its surrounding environs, is the site cf onr_ of flee most unique indo-Hispanic cultural landscapes in the rntira Srutfiwest. (::) fhe r•r_nov,ned San Luis Vega, a 6J~.JL acre commons utilised rr+m:+ril}• by Socnl ranchers for grazing. The Voga is One of only