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Section 34-33-123 (12) , C.R.S . provides that the Board or <br /> Division of Minerals and Geology may request the attorney general <br /> to file suit whenever the permittee or an agent of such permittee <br /> violates or fails to comply with an order issued by the Board or <br /> Division. Pursuant to this statute and in an effort to reclaim <br /> the mine site, the plaintiff filed the present cause of action in <br /> Pitkin County against the defendants as agents of the bankrupt <br /> mining company (v. 1, pp. 8-13) . The case was later transferred <br /> to Judge William L. Jones of Eagle County (v. 1, p. 102) . <br /> The amended- complaint requested an injunction ordering the <br /> defendants to perform reclamation according to the reclamation <br /> plan, the Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act and <br /> regulations promulgated thereunder, and the reclamation schedule, <br /> and to maintain the site in compliance with applicable law (v. 1, <br /> pp. 12-13) . In the alternative, the amended complaint requested <br /> the defendants to pay for the cost of reclamation (v. 1, p. 13) . <br /> The complaint provided that the estimated cost of reclamation was <br /> $3 million (v. 1, p. 9) . <br /> In their answer to the complaint , the defendants admitted <br /> that the individual defendants (Diane Delaney; Robert Delaney; <br /> and John Reeves) had acted as spokespersons for the bankrupt <br /> company; that Robert Delaney and John Reeves were officers and <br /> directors of the company; and that defendant Mid-Continent <br /> Minerals Corporation wholly owned MCR (v. 1, pp. 18-19) . (Robert <br /> Delaney and John Reeves were also officers and directors of <br /> 4 <br />