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<br />~; ~ III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ~ <br /> <br />SANDCO ~ <br />THE FINEST IN MASONRY SAND <br />P 0. BOX 1773 ~ DURANGO. COLORADO 81301 ~ PHONE 2471303 <br />DEN~EE <br />pFF 1C <br />Received <br />JUL 2 9 1996 <br />July 26, 1996 <br />Du Field OIliC1 <br />alr+.w~ d'~in.rr. c+.a.o,~ <br />Mr. Ken Jacobson <br />Chief, Southwestern Colorado Regulatory Office <br />402 Rood Avenue, Room 142 <br />Grand Junction, CO 81501-2563 <br />CER'T'IFIED MAIL ,RRETURN RECEIPT.,(R(/EQUES1TED /~ <br />DuL IJ1~ LG[G~c.1. ~Cil !/LL P / ~ ~/1 <br />Subject: Gravel mining permit application numbers; <br />199475346, 199475348, 199475349,199475345. <br />Dear Mr. Jacobson: <br />It is our understanding that the corps will now proceed to <br />evaluate the comments it has received pertaining to the <br />issuance of gravel mining permits in the Animas River. It is <br />also our understanding that the corps may elect to issue <br />temporary interim permits until such time that a complete <br />evaluation can be made. In any case we want to draw your <br />attention to inconsistent limitations that now exist between <br />the various permits. <br />The existing gravel mining operations <br />are individually permitted. These pe <br />limitations as to the methods of ope: <br />permits carry restrictions that h. <br />assigned by the La Plata County Commi <br />Department of Natural Resources, Div. <br />Geology, or others. In particular, r~ <br />to the depth that instream excavations <br />greatly from one permit to another. <br />permitted to excavate to depths of as <br />the river bed; another operator may ' <br />while others are limited to 6 inches <br />line. Sandco is limited to excavations <br />along the Animas River <br />emits contain various <br />•ation. Presently, the <br />ve been arbitrarily <br />>sioners, the Colorado <br />sion of Minerals and <br />strictions pertaining <br />may be performed vary <br />One operator may be <br />much as 30 feet below <br />le limited to l0 feet <br />above the low water <br />to the low waterline. <br />Restrictions such as those outlined above, that were <br />assigned arbitrarily and without appropriate study and <br />evaluation, are biased and blatantly unfair. <br />