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companies involved in the construction as much as possible. Where local services are not available for the work, the companies hired are required to use local workers or subcontractors as much as possible. One contractor who is not local has a work force made up of over 50~ from the County. Local employees for Battle Mountain will earn an average salary of $23,000 each year. Employees will also receive approximately another one third times that amount in benefits such as health insurance. There will be two $1,500 scholarships available each year to employees' children. If these scholarships are not used by employees' children, the money will be made a~~ailable to students at Centennial High School. b) Battle Mountain in conjunction with State and Local officials has provided training and job skills programs for Costilla County residents. A special San Luis office has been set up for employment by Rocky Mountain SER/Jobs For Progress and tttie Colorado Job Service. Battle Mountain helped to bring a $40,000 grant to the Centennial School District from the Colorado Community Colleges and Occupational Education system to provide the skills enrichment component of the program at the school district's Learning Opportunity Center in San Luis. In addition to job training, Battle Mourtain made available two $500 scholarships to students at Centennial High School in 1989 and gave one $1,500 scholarship to a student in 1990. The $1,500 scholarshiF will be renewable for three years if that student continues to maintain the proper academics. As mentioned above, if scholarships available for employees' children are not used each year, they will be made available to centennial High School students that meet the criteria. c) The mine will pay a significant amount in taxes. Some of the additional tax monies can be applied to aid other economic development projects in the County. Over the life of the project Battle Mountain will pay an estimated $2.5 million in taxes to schools, county government and local taxing districts. Already we have paid approximately $280,000 in sales tax and 530,000 in back taxes on the Columbian Ranch. These mcnies will allow local residents to benefit through increased revenues which can be used for school improvements, economic development, improvements to community structures or to aid local organizations.