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<br />site. The 9360 and 700 portal levels have been <br />graded and shaped. We also sealed and closed <br />those, and also the two surface tailings <br />impoundments which I mentioned previously...we had <br />dried those out, shaped and graded them, <br />revegetated them and then also out here more <br />recently we've established surface water <br />diversionary systems around those to carry offsite <br />run-on around those facilities to control erosion <br />and things of that sort. <br />With that diagram, I'd like to discuss what a few <br />of our views are, in regard to what we believe the <br />current legal authority is relating to groundwater <br />protection in the State; and particularly as it <br />pertains to DMG. (Refers to diagram) First one <br />here, DMG appointed authority to require <br />groundwater study at the site under SB 181, which <br />was enacted in 1989 under the Colorado Water <br />Quality Control Act. Section 25 (inaudible) <br />2.0.2.7 of the Act provides that water quality <br />classifications and standards adopted by the Water <br />Quality Control Commission shall be implemented by <br />the Office of Mined Land Reclamation after <br />consultation with WQCD and the Commission. The <br />Division of Minerals also further relies upon <br />Section 3.1.7, the Minerals Rules and Regulations, <br />as amended in March of 1993, and specifically <br />8 <br />