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Feb. 12, 2013 <br />RECEIVED <br />FEB 12 2013 <br />DIVISION OF RECLAMATION <br />MINING AND SAFETY <br />The Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Dear Members of the Mined Land Reclamation Board, <br />INFORM <br />INFORMATION NETWORK FOR <br />RESPONSIBLE MINING <br />PO Box 746 <br />TELLURIDE, CO <br />81435 -0746 <br />(212) 473 -7717 <br />jennifer@informcolorado.org <br />www.informcolorado.org <br />Via email to russ.means @state.co.us, Jeff.Fugate @state.co.us, loretta.pineda @state.co.us <br />Re: Objection to Notice of Temporary Cessation, Cotter Corporation JD -6 Mine, 112(d) Permit <br />No. M- 1977 -310 <br />The Information Network for Responsible Mining is a Colorado -based citizens organization that <br />advocates for the protection of communities and the environment and actively participates in <br />mining reviews. Our members and staff have an interest in the environmental health and <br />conditions of mined lands in Colorado and are directly and adversely affected by the JD -6 Mine, <br />located in western Montrose County. INFORM has longstanding concerns about the idle state of <br />the JD -6 and the connected Mineral Joe Claims and the environmental conditions of the <br />combined mining site. <br />The JD -6 is not in compliance with the Mined Land Reclamation Act and has not been in <br />compliance for a number of years, as spelled out in the Division's letter to Cotter Corporation on <br />Nov. 9, 2012. Cotter Corporation has been able to escape the reclamation requirements of the Act <br />by placing both permits on Intermittent Status for lengthy periods despite the lack of any mineral <br />production -- in the case of the Mineral Joe, since at least 1994; and in the case of JD -6, since at <br />least 1990 -- and clearly, both permits have been out of compliance with the law for two decades. <br />In fact, Cotter Corporation's noncompliance reaches back even further, since there has been no <br />serious, consistent and documented active mineral production at the mines prior to 1985. <br />Although Cotter claims to have produced some ore at the JD -6 in late 2005 through February <br />2006, this brief output does not represent a return to active mining, since the ore was never <br />