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Di Cr�:?� FITkIll CQUHT' ' =Et_ '3— =_,la? F'. �7 <br /> MID-CONTINENT RESOURCES, INC. <br /> Board of CountyC000='re March 7, 1991 <br /> Pitkin county, page <br /> Mid-Continent shall reseed and revagatata disturbed <br /> areas of the mine sits according to the plan <br /> described in vol=a 70 Chapter S of the Coal Basin <br /> Mina Permit Application of JdnUary 26f 1981 <br /> (hereinafter known as "The Permit Application") or <br /> according to relevant sections Of any Y <br /> approved permit. . . .Mid-Continent will further <br /> conduct operations according to the operating Plan <br /> contained in the Permit Application . <br /> The application referred in Paragraph 3 of special Use Permit #86- <br /> 139 is required under the Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation <br /> Act, which regulates "the surface effects of underground coal <br /> mining,ii 14 C014. Rev. $tat. $ 34-33-121 (1964 Repl. Vol. ) . The <br /> 110paratinq Plan contained in the Permit Application" is, as <br /> provided in the 1 2.05.2 of the regulations of the Mined band <br /> Reclamation Board, EA] ganeral description of all surface coal <br /> mining operations proposed to be conducted during the life of the <br /> operation." <br /> The point is that active mining operations are not de3fineed as <br /> continuous coal production under Special Use Permit #96-139, and <br /> the mining plan refarinced in 11 3 and 24 is a description of <br /> surface sotivroduation,iwhichsoccursh are undmrground, and continuous, <br /> not of coal p <br /> Further, interruption or susponIsion of coal production for <br /> indefinite periods occurs during -the life of any coal mine <br /> operation for a variety of reasons. in the past several decades Of <br /> Mid-Continent's operations at Coal Basin- numerous i t ��ption$ <br /> have, occurred as a result of the noacmal mining <br /> which <br /> requires, amonr� other things, movement of l.�ongwall or other coal <br /> productions equipment sets, strikes at our own and our customers' <br /> facilities, and various wining events such as equipment <br /> malfunctions, root fall., firs, market loss, and other causes. <br /> At no time has pitkin County ever before suggested or found that an <br /> interruption of production was a reason for suspensiOn Of the <br /> permit. While Mid-Continent has announc$d that our intantio aatia� <br /> gall the property, no such sale has in fact occurred. Any <br /> by pitkiri County whims is promised on a change of ownership is <br /> premature, to say the least. <br /> fx. The Ametndatory ROSOlutiOA is impracticable <br /> and Unmorkabls, arid► Therefore, <br /> Substantially impedes Xid-CoatiuOut'■ <br />