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..: --~ • i Moffat County Planning Department Re: Use Permit/Bunn Ranch Gravel Pit April 25, 1980 Page 2 3. Naturally, if your office desires to wade through these materials as they are submitted, we will be happy to furnish them to you in an ongoing way as that permitting process proceeds. 4. The area in question is clearly suitable as a sand and gravel pit. This fact has been tacitly recognized by your office at various times in the past in regard to other matters. Its location is between the river on the south and a heavy industrial zone on the north. These matters were covered in more depth in our letter of transmittal of April 18, 1980. 5. We believe that the types and kinds of information which your office is now requesting are those kinds of things which deal with the land reclamation questions and not the zoning and planning questions inherent in our proposed operation, and that these "nuts and bolts" matters must, of practical necessity, be left largely to the evaluation by the people charged by law with the responsibility on the staff of the Mined Land Board. 6. The tenor of your April 22, 1980 letter could create a cloud on our later application to the Mined Land Board. We feel that for you to send a copy of your letter to Mr. Brad Janes, of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board, is not only premature, but constitutes an attempt to color his judgment before he has had an opportunity to see the application. If coimaents of this kind are appropriate at all, they are only appropriate after an application has been submitted so that they can be placed in perspective and evaluated by people having the ability and expertise to do so. Needless to say, should Planning Board approval be obtained, in the ongoing permitting process, we fully intend to cooperate with the County and with your office and keep you as fully informed as you wish to be. As to your comment that the Mined Land Board may well require an environmental assessment for this permit, we have been advised that the regulations of the Mined Land Board in this regard do not impose such a requirement as a separate document and therefore, no such request is anticipated. In fact, for all practical purposes, an environmental assessment of this proposed development has been made.