PERMFILE104213

• Permit No: M1988112
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 2/23/1989
• Doc Name: MLRB Hearing
• From: MLRB
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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companies that we've had in Colorado,
Now, one way to judge succe$s or
failure is how many sites are on the Federal
Superfund site which are related to mining, and in
Colorado we have 16 Superfund sites, and far those of
you who don't know, those are sites that tYie Federal
Government has designated as the worst of the worst,
that have yes, jeopardized public health or
environment that are imminent threats to public
health and safety or the wildlife that surround
them,
And to get on the list you have to be
really, really, really bad because there are lots of
other sites that are way down lower on the list that
are hazards but are not that severe relative to
these.
Now, we have 16 sites that are on the
list or have been proposed for the Federal list, and
of those six are mining sites in Colorado that have
become Superfund level disasters because of the
extent of threat to public health and safety and the
environment.
We also have had the State Attorney
General for Colorado going after the Idarado mine
near Telluride. There had been tests done in 1978