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Regarding the Kohler, the building is the main historic feature. The applicant believes the building to be partially built on dump rock and is in the wain of portal activities and must therefore be destroyed. The committee recommends that if the building is found to sit on solid rock, and the portal work can be economicall performed without destroying all or part of the building, tKen an attempt should be made to preserve the structure or part of it. The committee acknowledges that alternatives to removal of the Kohler dump are not Practical, and that achievement of clean up goals will result in a substantial altering of the visual character of the site and that it may not be possible to save the building thereon. S. SUMMARY The Historic Review Committee has attempted to outline some general criteria for evaluating the historic imVacts of these projects with the goal toward both preserving significant structures and sites, and achieving cost effective environmental benefits. The committee notes that overly restrictive language and interpretation of stormwater regulations makes achievement of historic preservation goals virtually impossible, if taken to the "letter of the law." The close comingling of waste frock and structures at most sites makes meeting these goals all the more difficult. Understanding and flexibility on a site specific basis by the appropriate regulatory agency is needed to achieve both environmental and historic preservation benefits for the community. This committee urges the regulatory aencies involved to allow the applicant to modify It's pyann to make preservation of significant historic sites economically feasible. once destroyed, such sites cannot be recovered. Respectfully submitted, San Juan County Historic Impact Review Committee June 24, 1996