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October 7, 1996 State of Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology Department of Natural Resources 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, Colorado 80203 RECE" ~- , ~~ ~~ 1~y6 viCiOn p1 ~rc~ , . ~~. Attention: Mr. Carl B. Mount, Senior Environmental Protection Specialist ke: Complaint Regarding Blegal and Unauthorized Grading and Use of the Western Branch of Steamboat Valley Road North of Lyons, Colorado Dear Mr. Mount: We, the undersigned members ofthe Steamboat Valley Property Owners' Association, Inc. and property ovmers along the western branch of Steamboat Valley Road, are filing this complaint and requesting an investigation by the Division of Minerals and Geology of the illegal and unauthorized quarry hauling and access activities being carried out by Loukonen Brothers Stone Yard of 12993 North Foothills Highway, Lyons, Colorado 80540. Specifically, this complaint is in response to the grading and improvement of an existing trail on private property as a stone hauling route from the Loukonen Quarry north of Lyons (Beech Hill in Boulder County, Section 6, 3N70) and the stated intention by Loukonen Brothers to utilize the western branch of Steamboat Valley Road as a stone hauling route. These activities began in February, 1996, were suspended for awhile, and continued again as of last Wednesday, October 2, 1996. This complaint and request for a Division investigation is based on the following issues: }]legal and unauthorized grading and improvement of the trail spur of the western branch of Steamboat Valley Road for the purpose of hauling stone from the Loukonen quarry -illegal because there were no permits from any relevant branch of goverrunent for the grading activities and, unauthorized because there was no approval either sought from or granted by any of the affected property owners Illegal and unauthorized use of the western branch of Steamboat Valley Road as a stone hauling truck route and access way for the Loukonen quarry -illegal because this route is in direct violation of the Loukonen quarry State permit w}uch designates Stone Canyon Road (Noland Road) as the approved hauling and access route and, unauthorized because there is no approval of these a~Kivities either sought from or granted by any of the affected landowners, the Steamboat Valley Property Owners' Association, Inc., or the Town of Lyons Failure to report or to include the azea of the improved roadway access and stone hauling route to the authorized quarry azea allotment as permitted by the Division of Minerals and Geology