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' "' Carmen Kuhns -2- luly 6, 1995 mine subsidence. You questioned what protections for any future structures you may build on your property are afforded you as a landowner under Colorado Law. Section 2.05.6(6) of the Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining requires mining companies to include in their applications for mining permits the following items: 1) an inventory, description, and location of all structures within the proposed permit area and the adjacent area, 2) a description of the worst possible consequences which subsidence, if it occurred, could have for those structures, 3) a determination of whether the proposed subsidence could cause material damage or diminution of the reasonably foreseeable use of such structures, 4) a description of a proposed subsidence monitoring program, if necessary, 5) a subsidence survey, if necessary, and 6) a subsidence control plan, if necessary. Section 4.20.3 of the Board's Regulations goes on to require mining companies to: "adopt all measures of the subsidence control plan approved by the Division to reduce the likelihood of subsidence, to prevent subsidence from causing material damage or reducing the value or reasonably foreseeable use of surface lands, and to mitigate the effect of any such damage or reduction which may occur." With regard to your concern with protecting any water or water wells that you may develop on your property in the future, Section 3433-111(1)(m) of the Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act states: Each reclamation plan submitted as part of a permit application pursuant to this article shall include, in the degree of detail necessary to demonstrate that reclamation required by this article can be accomplished,...a detailed description of the measures to be taken during the surface coal mining and reclamation operations to assure the protection of.• (1) The quality of surface water and groundwater systems, both on-site and offsite, from adverse effects of the surface coal mining and reclamation operations; (2) The rights of present users to such water; and (3) The quantity of water in surface and groundwater systems. Protection measures may include providing water by exchange, substitution, replacement, or augmentation, as appropriate under State law. Additional water protection language may be found in Sections 2.04.7(3) and 4.05.15 of the Board's Regulations. As I mentioned, our Law and Regulations are available from our office at a cost of $14.00.