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06032 <br />Introduction <br />Banks and Gesso, LLC <br />The Denver Brick Company is submitting this Construction Materials Regular (112) <br />Operation Reclamation Permit application to conduct commercial mineral recovery <br />activities on property located in Elbert County, Colorado. The operation will be called <br />the Kiowa Clay Mine. The applicant proposes to extract brick precursors (e.g. red and <br />buff clays) from the subject property. <br />The site is located in the south half of Section 19, Township 9 South, Range 61 West, 6`h <br />P.M., Elbert County, Colorado. The proposed permit boundary contains 400 acres and <br />approximately 72 acres will be disturbed by mining, with some additional 20 acres <br />(approximately) disturbed by access roads, stockpiles, and equipment staging. <br />The surface and subject mineral rights are owned by the Applicant. The property is <br />currently entitled for mineral extraction in accordance with Elbert County regulations. <br />The site is also host to an existing livestock lease, subject to the control and right of <br />cancellation by the Applicant landowner. It is intended that cattle operations will <br />continue on the property, in areas not subject to mining and within the affected area prior <br />to the commencement of mining in phases that would disrupt operations. The site will <br />be compatible with rangeland uses, as it exists today, with appropriate reclamation <br />planning. The designated post-mining use is rangeland. <br />Man made structures on or within 200 feet of the affected area include only the County <br />road and overhead utility line within 200 feet of the entrance point to the property. <br />The Applicant anticipates no conflicts resulting from environmental considerations. The <br />site is at the interior of a fenced property, near a ridgeline but largely shielded from the <br />view of neighboring parcels. We do not anticipate encountering groundwater during the <br />life of the operation. <br />The Denver Brick Company January 2007 <br />Kiowa Clay Mine Page 2 <br />