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• MR. BARRY: Thank you. MR. JOUFLAS: Thank you, sir. -38- MR. ORTEGA: Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen of the Board and thank you for your interest in Colorado and preserving the best we have in terms of beauty here in our beautiful state. And, thank you for your concern and interest in this project. And I ended up with this sign-up sheet so I'll justturn it in to the Board here, you folks here. So, ~ name is Prax Ortega and am the Costilla County Local Emergency Planning Committee Chairman. This is the only chairmanship I hold. I'd like to pass to the Board, this January 20th letter that I sent certified mail, to Mr. Gary Dodson, Battle Mountain Gold Company, in regard to the San Luis Valley Six County Superfund Amendment Reauthorization, (SARA), Act, Title III Act. In the process, we are asking Battle Mountain Gold to contact this committee which was -- this committee was appointed by the State • Commission of Emergency Response. So we are involved and for the past two years I took this position of learning about SARA Title III and I have seen many other emergency response plans. And this letter here, copy which was sent out certified mail, was 30 days later, we didn't get no response from Battle Mountain Gold Company and so we said maybe they are busy trying to figure out the price of gold, if it is going up or down. That sort of upset the committee. The county sheriff is on the committee, the fire department chief is on the committee, I represent the committee as a Civil Defense Director, and so we are sort of saddened that Battle Mountain is not the good neighbor they claim to be. On March 7, I sent another letter to Battle Mountain Gold Company, again asking them to meet the SARA Title III requirements witfi the proper forms, not th.ts emergency response plan that they have submitted. Excuse me for mU' shakey voice. This second letter was addressed March 7, to Battlie Mountain again, asking them by certified mail that we are request SARA Tide III requirements - required data on extremely hazardous materials be addressed.