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J <br />~~ u~v <br />~uf>.tau nF ~s~T~~.r~c~-tT <br />ci` ~iiv3 JL Le L <br />September 11, 2006 ' <br />2006 SEP t i PM 4~ d2 <br />BLM, Grand Junction Office <br />C/o Dave Lehmann , <br />2815 H Road <br />Grand Junction, CO 81506 <br />RE: Red Cliff Coal Mine Scoping <br />Dear BLM, <br />The proposed CAM-Colorado coal mine, north of Mack and Loma, will increase , <br />Mesa County's ability to receive more dollars from Colorado's Energy and <br />Mineral Assistance Program. The Department of Local Affairs awarded <br />$6,027,963 last year in matching assistance grants to numerous capital projects <br />throughout the county. <br /> <br />Energy and Mineral Impact Grants have helped fund such projects in Mesa County <br />as the Greenway Business Parkin Fruita, which funded the construction of 7,650 <br />feet of infrastructure improvements. Other projects funded were the replacing of , <br />leaky roofs on the old Department of Energy building in Grand Junction, providing <br />hardware and software for improving Mesa County's EMS system, and the overlay <br />of several roads throughout the county. <br />These projects could not have been funded without the support of Colorado's , <br />Energy and Mineral Assistance Program. <br />I would strongly urge that the BLM acknowledge this fact and include it in the <br />environmental impact statement. <br />Re rds, , <br />22Cx~ ~• 13~` 5~- a~.• y <br />~~. ~, X1501 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />