2002-04-12_PERMIT FILE - M2002004 (3)

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RECEIVED APR 1 2 2002 April 8, 2002 Attn: Anthony J. Waldron Division of Minerals and Geology Department of Natural Resources 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, CO 80203 Division of Minerals and GeofogV We are strongly opposed to the Rio Grande Cement plant proposed for southern Pueblo county. Our opposition is based on many factors and we're hoping this letter sheds some additional light on one important factor: money. Most pro-cement-plant arguments are based on increased tax revenues and additions to the local work force. Those additional tax revenues from the plant could be easily offset by the following: money needed to update and continually upgrade road systems to handle increased cement-truck traffic; money needed by auto-insurance companies to fix cracked windshields; money needed, to treat asthma and other respiratory health problems; money needed to fight lawsuits brought about by this attack on your citizens' health; money needed to purify water ruined by strip mining and cement production; money needed to fight lawsuits from those injured on the highways by flying rocks`or large trucks; money needed to stimulate an economy that suffers a. severe cut in land values; money needed to fight lawsuits brought about by a severe cut in land values; money needed by the state to purchase additional water shares to replace the water a cement factory ruins; money needed to fight environmental lawsuits brought against the county; money needed to pay the pollution fines that Rio Grande already admits to. We don't want this cement company in Pueblo. We don't need this cement company in Pueblo. We can't afford to have this cement company in Pueblo, financially, in terms of our health, or in terms of our environment. Sincerely, = Nick and Judy Ienatsch /lG ?t_LN li 22 Summerwind Irv Nick and Judy Ienatsch Irvine, CA 92614