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"'^I ? -Vi u 1C_ - I- I-fIIUI I•L"I`1L F'1 nIJ t_IJIJI'k_1L. I1?b (C1 J`i7 IIJ 417( JC`t f J 1611 F'. Lf IJ <br />Ubaldo F. Padilla <br />P.O. Box 495 <br />2071.4 County Rd P.6 <br />San Luis, CO 81152 <br />March 3, 2008 <br />Wallace Erickson, Environmental Protection Specialist <br />701 Camino del Rio, Room 315, <br />Durango, CO 81301 <br />Phone (970) 247-5469 and FAX number (970) 247-5104. <br />Ronald W. Cattany, Director <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining & Safety <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />Dear Mr. Erickson and Mr. Cattany and others Whom Concern: <br />IA ? <br />HR V L?J " <br />RECEIV <br />ED, <br />MAR 3 <br />0 200: ; <br />Division of Reclamation, <br />Mining and Safety <br />-San i:ui 5 Prof <br />?? l? 8S - ll2 <br />This letter constitutes notice that many entities and individuals in Southern Costilla County, including <br />Las Comadres de San Luis y el Condado de Costilla, the Rio Culebra Agruicultural Cooperative, the <br />Costilla County Committee for Environmental Soundness (CES), The Acequia Associations and <br />Organizations, The Costilla County Commissioners, the Town of San Luis, and others objecting to <br />the proposed Permit Amendment 3, DRMS Permit No. M-88-112, filed by Battle Mountain Gold on <br />December 2007. <br />WE do not believe that we were properly notified of this application. The Valley Courier is not our <br />local media source. Las Comadres de San Luis were informed of this application on 2.27.08, just <br />prior to the deadline. Because you do not hear from this community, please do not -ass-u-me-.that <br />there is no opposition. <br />We do not believe that the Mined Land Reclamation Board has the authority to grant Battle Mountain <br />Gold water rights to irrigate the property formerly known as the Shalom Ranch, now being called the <br />Salazar Ranch. The MLRB cannot grant a change of industrial/mining water to agriculture use. Nor <br />should they be allowed to put water on land that has no water rights. <br />I personally join the other entities from my community in contesting the assertion by Battle <br />Mountain Gold that the West Pit water is now of pre-mining quality. 1 am very concerned about the <br />contamination of the farmland, which is adjacent to the Centennial School District and the residents <br />in the State's oldest Town of San Luis. <br />I further object to: <br />1. A proposal to close the water treatment facility located near the Rito Seco Creek on the Battle <br />Mountain Gold (BMG) property. <br />I further object to: <br />2. A proposal to irrigate the BMG property, formerly known as the Shalom Ranch, now being <br />called the Salazar Ranch; with water that should have been processed tl- ough the water <br />treatment plant which is currently in operation.