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Date: June a 2008 <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />•+?-580 <br />/M ? <br />Teller County Board of Commissioners <br />And; <br />Teller County Planner[s] <br />Paul Clarkson <br />Community Development Services Division Director <br />PO Box 1886 <br />Woodland Park, CO 80866 <br />Hearing Date: Planning Commission: July 22nd, 2008 <br />County Commissioners: August 28ti', 2008 <br />State of Colorado <br />Berlm Keffelew <br />Environmental Protection Specialist <br />Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br />1313 Shennan St, Room 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />State hearing dates have not yet been set <br />Dan Baader, Mayor <br />Cripple Creek <br />REGARDING: )Expansion and Modification of CCV Mining Permit <br />The current application from the CCV Mini: has brought forth a number of <br />issues that may or may not have been addressed during prior permitting <br />processes. The most dramatic is the visual impacts associated with the <br />mining operations and their 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 concurs that the Mine has - entitlements along with <br />those entitlements comes 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 />CreeldVietor Area for over 100 years and most recently over the past 15 or <br />so years that Angio Gold has operated the CCV Mine. The current mining <br />operations 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 />z qy ? M k- <br />N 16 200$ <br />Division of a«ciafnation, <br />Mining and Safety <br />City of Cripple Creek <br />Position Paper on Mine Expansion Permit