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Sundance Sand and Gravel Resource, M-2006-073 Response to Adequacy Review 07 February 20, 2007 Page 8 study submitted to them. Lafarge is currently working with EI Paso County and CDOT to assure proper access. 5. A Bureau of Land Management permit is not necessary as the subject property is on private land. 6. Lafarge submitted a Special Use Permit application to EI Paso County on October 4, 2006. We are currently addressing adequacy comments with the County. Exhibit S: The applicant has undertaken efforts to comply with Rule 6.4.1, concerning permanent man-made structures. Compliance with be demonstrated through notarized agreements, and, where agreement cannot be obtained, a geotechnical engineering evaluation will be furnished to the DRMS. These efforts are on-going as of this writing and should be completed prior to the March 2 decision date. For the record, the various utilities and transportation structures on the map of the area are largely over 200 feet - or near the limit of 200 feet -from the proposed excavation. Typically, detailed geotechnical modeling and evaluation is not necessary to establish a lack of adverse structural impact from access roads and stockpiles. In addition, the applicant attached a notarized affidavit to the original submittal of Exhibit S, agreeing to keep the affected area of the operation at lease 200 feet from all permanent man-made structures until Rule 6.4.19 is addressed with respect to those structures. The applicant is committed to limiting mining impacts appropriately until the safety of each structure is adequately addressed. This adequacy response is submitted in advance of the March 2, 2007, DRMS decision date for the M-2006-073 application. Our intent, on behalf of Lafarge West, Inc., is to provide the Division with ample opportunity to review these comments and deem a significant number of adequacy issues resolved prior to the decision date. In the meantime, we will continue to develop with Lafarge responses to the limited outstanding adequacy issues noted above. We will submit additional correspondence to the DRMS at the soonest opportunity and look forward to the Division's confirmation that various items from the DRMS Adequacy Review 01 have been fully addressed.