Pursuant to the October 14th, 1998, at Hygiene Elementary School, meeting between local residents, the Watchdogs, Boulder County Health, Southdown Corporation, and the Colorado Department of Health and Environment, Air Pollution Control Division, the following Facts are worth noting:

FACT 1: All the Facts below are preventable.

FACT 2: Scientific Calculations

The Air Pollution Control Division issues permits to Southdown Corporation and Western Mobile Corporation as long as these companies are compliant with industry-wide scientific calculations.

FACT 3: We have the Pollution, but where's the Control in the Air Pollution Control Division

AT NO TIME does the Air Pollution Control Division consider the cummulative effect of the air quality degradation by Western Mobile, Southdown Cement, and Golden's Mining. Each is issued permits as long as they comply with current regulations, but added together they exceed the regulations, thereby putting residents at risk.
Do we need to spell it out for the Air Pollution Control Division?

FACT 4: The Calculcations Might Be Correct__Who Knows?

There is no followup after permits have been issued to see if the calculations are correct. There is one site inspection per year.

FACT 5: Loopholes

Fugitive dust and chronic housekeeping problems do not factor into the Calculations mentioned above.
There are no physicians involved in the permitting process. So no input regarding possible health risks and concerns.
The EPA regulations are not built for people that live at hight altitude. We intake a larger volume of air per breath, also more pollutants.

FACT 6: No Conscience, No Crime?

Neither the Air Pollution Control Division or Southdown, Corp., or Western Mobile, Corp., is required to characterize the air pollution emmissions from a fugitive dust cloud.
The fugitive dust clouds that engulf this community could contain any amount and type of toxic and illness-causing particles.

FACT 7: High Altitude, Higher exposure, Highest Risk

Colorado residents, because they live at higher altitude than the rest of the country, breath in more air with every breath. Current EPA regulations are not built for people living at altitude. Front Range residents are exposed to a significantly larger amount of asthma-causing, cancer-causing air pollutants per breath than the rest of the country.
The Air Pollution Control Division does not pursue extra protections for residents on the Front Range.

FACT 8: Status Quo, Oh, so Low

The Air Pollution Control Division does not pursue changes or upgrades to legislation regarding the permitting process, nor does the agency validate proposed Calculations, nor do they have the common sense to respond to the concerns of an entire community when we tell them there is a problem.