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Date: June 5 2008 <br />TO: <br />Teller County Board of Commissioners <br />And; <br />Teller County Clarkson <br />Community Development Services Division Director <br />PO Box 1888 <br />Woodland Park, CO 80888 <br />Wearing Dab: Planning Commission: <br />Coanty Comm slonsrs: <br />State of Colorado <br />S•rhan Kslfelew <br />Et vhunmsntal Protection Specialist <br />1313 <br />Shaman Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />State hearing dabs have not at been set <br />FROM: Dan Baader, Mayor <br />Cripple Creek <br />REGARDING: Expansion and Modification of CCV Mining Permit <br />The current application from the CCV Mine has brought forth a number of <br />issues that may or may not have been addressed during prior permi <br />processes. The most dramatic is the visual Impacts associated with the <br />mining operations and trek effects on the City of Cripple Creek <br />It would have been virtually impossible to fully understand the impacts that <br />the mine was proposing during the last applications or modifications, <br />however the visuals are quite evident now. <br />While the City Council congas that the Mine has — entitlements along with <br />those entltements cones the obligation of ° Mitigation". <br />Cripple Creek acknowledges that for Teller County and the State of <br />Colorado economic advantages to having mining in the Cripple <br />CrsekMictor Area for over 100 years and most recently over the past 15 or <br />so <br />operadons years that Anglo Gold has operated the CCV Mine. The current mining <br />has significantly provided issues to Cripple Creek and Victor <br />that are not now or in the future proposed to be mitigated to a level of non - <br />significance. <br />City of Cripple Creek <br />Position Paper on Mine Expansion Permit <br />July 22", 2008 <br />August 2e, 2008 <br />RECEIVE <br />JUN 16 2008 <br />Division or r«ciainatlon, <br />Mining and Safety <br />