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<br />that. If that water is such quality that it's <br />unfit for anything but some industrial purpose, <br />then that's what's to be protected. <br />The other thing I want to emphasize is what Allen <br />brought up about the release procedures. If you <br />go to that Rule 4, it specifically states that <br />"the Office shall determine if the operator has <br />complied with all applicable requirements", and <br />the Office is doing that; that has been delegated <br />to the Office by the Board and through statute. <br />And, basically then, what I'm getting at, at that <br />point, is that an operator has not completed <br />reclamation, until that determination is made. If <br />you go to some other extreme with that <br />determination, if it's the operator that makes <br />that determination, then the Board is not...would <br />be unable to enforce requirements of the statute <br />and the Regulations. Because, it's the statute <br />and the Regulations that preside over the permit. <br />A permit does tell an operator what they should <br />have to do, in order to achieve compliance with <br />the performance requirements of the statute and <br />Regulations. But, that's not a guarantee, just <br />because you have a permit that says you need to do <br />such and such; it's a best guess. The application <br />is a best guess on how to meet those performance <br />standards. The performance standards in the Act <br />18 <br />