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.~ <br />..-~-. . <br />San Luis, Co 81152 <br />Nov. 29, 1989 <br />• ~II II~II~II~~~~~ ~I~ <br />R~~9!-~~ <br />p ~ C i 1999 <br />MINED LJal~at~ <br />RECLAMATIbl~ ~i~V1800,1 <br />Mined Land Reclamation Board <br />1313 Sherman St. Rm 423 <br />Denver, Co 80233-2273 <br />Dear Sirs: <br />BATTLE MOUNTAIN GOLD COMPANY has proposed to strip mine the Rito <br />Seco Creek area in Costill,County, and I as a concerned citizen <br />would like to file an official protest concerning the mining <br />application. My protest is under the Company's E. RECLAMATION <br />section. My reasons for protest are the following: <br />The Sangre de Cristo Mountains are the singular beauty of the <br />Southern section of the San Luis Valley area. Aesthetically, <br />they add a trully beautiful and valuable asset to this area <br />of our State. Based on this, the EDA (Economic Development <br />Assoc.) has begun a long range plan for implementation of <br />community, county, and private projects to boost the average <br />income of the per capita income in [he San Luis community. <br />The polution, from dust; the noise factor from the machines, <br />the total activity of a mining project of this magnitude, will <br />easily win out over the slower building of credibility and <br />small ventures in turism and spiritual and cultural projects. <br />It is my hope that a consideration for the true values of the <br />area, in natural beauty, inviornmental conservation, lend <br />preservation of wild life will be the true heritages we will be <br />able to hand on to other generations. <br />Therefore I believe that an Enviornmental Impact Study needs <br />to be done and submitted by an appropriate government agency <br />before the mining takes place. <br />Secondly, for such a vast project as the mining company is <br />projecting it is imperative that the population of San Luis <br />should be present in this matter and therefore I am also re- <br />questing that a Formal Public hearing be held in San Luis <br />early in 1990. <br />Thank you for taking these proposals into consideration. I <br />am confident that with complete and careful processes in <br />protecting the people and their rights in these important <br />steps there will be an openness to future ventures in the <br />San Luis area. <br />Gratefully, , <br />i ,~, <br />~/~~/~ ~!=~/h <br />ister Te a Jaramillo, SCMM <br />