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<br />March 3, 2008 <br />Wallace Erickson, Environmental Protection Specialist <br />701 Camino del Rio, Room 315, <br />Durango, CO 81301 <br />Phone (9701247-5469 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 />50LA Lu L <br />This letter constitutes notice that many entities and individuals in Southern Costilla County, including <br />Las Comadres de San Lufs 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 Lufs, 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. I 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 through the water <br />treatment plant which is currently in operation. <br />RECEIVED <br />MAR 10 Z008 <br />N•' <br /> <br />R n <br />:Are 0 -Zua <br />Division cf Reciamationf - -'--, rn, <br />Mining and Safety:: klininj Gii 6„ Safety <br />03 ;? <br />CSb?eGlcan +o .4 A ' <br />Page 2 of 2 <br />Objection to the proposed Permit Amendment 3, DRMS Permit No. M-88-112, filed by Battle Mountain Gold_