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<br />-38- • <br />the COSC and all the other so-called consumer groups, if you <br />will, even knew there was a problem. we feel strongly that <br />there needs to be good, if needs to be interpreted as a completely <br />unreasonable, then I think the association would not have any <br />position except to have to reverse themselves, oppose these <br />laws and try for the repeal <br />[card: Any other comments from the public? Larry? <br />Drown: I still can't, can't agree with this strict interpretation for <br />two reasons. I don't agree with the interpretation itself, and <br />secondly, I don't think we can agree with it simply because of <br />the morass of problems it would create. They cannot, it's an <br />untenable situation to ask them to submit eight applications <br />simultaneously to comply with the law. It seems like it to me. <br />And now maybe we should define this a little bit better, our <br />statute began on July 1, 1976. We cannot enforce the '73 <br />statute. All right, so that maybe any mining that has occurred <br />since July 1, 1976, say it occurred during the July of this year, <br />then stopped. In the case of Nielson, and this is purely <br />hypothetical, maybe then by the strict interpretation, we could <br />not grant this permit, but we have no evidence that says that <br />they were mining after this statute came into effect. I just <br />don't agree with it all the way around. <br />Ward: Bob? <br />'Purner: I'd like to throw out a suggestion although there's nothing in <br />the law which covers this, that rather than issuing a life of <br />