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Work Force <br />Presently, a total of 422 employees make up the full work force of <br />Colowyo. These employees received in excess of $17.5 million in <br />salaries and wages during 1990, making Colowyo one of the largest <br />employers in Northwest Colorado. The entire Colowyo work force is <br />located at the mine site with production and maintenance shifts <br />running 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. Approximately 66% of the <br />employees live in Moffat County of which most live in Craig, 33$ in <br />Rio Blanco County of which most live in Meeker, and 1% in Routt <br />County. <br />Colowyo is very sensitive to the socio-economic impacts that coal <br />mining has on the life in Moffat and Rio Blanco Counties. Coal <br />mining, farming, and ranching have been closely related in this <br />area, since before the early 1920's. Colowyo has and will continue <br />to work closely with local government and other organizations. <br />In 1975, at a cost of $125,000, Colowyo had a cumulative regional <br />socioeconomic analysis prepared covering approximately 36,000 <br />square miles in Routt, Moffat and Rio Blanco counties for early <br />identification of potential problems and courses of action to <br />mitigate growth impact. <br />Colowyo participates in the Moffat County United Way, BLM Advisory <br />groups and other regional advisory groups, etc. and continues to <br />make its personnel available to assist local communities. Colowyo <br />has also contributed approximately $700,000 to assist various local <br />county, state, regional, and national clubs, charities, <br />organizations, services, governments, agencies, etc. since 1975. <br />Colowyo also provided a $650,000 financing guarantee to the Riford <br />Company to develop the Ridgeview Subdivision. Approximately 75 <br />houses and 20 townhouses were constructed in this development. <br />Taxes paid to Moffat County for calendar year 1990 amounted to <br />approximately $1,360,000.00. For the same year, production of coal <br />from Federal Coal Leases No. D-034365, C-35874 and C-29224 resulted <br />in royalty payments of $10,727,000 to the Federal Government. The <br />State of Colorado received over $2,121,000 from Colowyo for the <br /> <br />4 <br />