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Sisk: Siple: Sisk: possibly even barbed wire to prevent anyone from gaining access. As far as making that area, once you leave it, to ensure the fact that it's still is as sightly as it can be, what precautions would we take and what has been done in the past? You wouldn't be able to tell where the pits were after one growing season, and the flowlines underground, and we could do some type of wooden fencing around the facility, low profile tank batteries that would put their profile down below the fence height, so from the outside it would just look like a fenced enclosure. Gerrity Oil & Gas would be responsible for doing that. Do you have any plans to drill wells on Coal Creek Golf Course? Siple: Not at this time. Sisk: I read the Thornton ordinance to be, when we're talking about mitigation, to say that it's the owner's responsibility for the .... I kept reading through that and seeing that the responsibility is placed on, Landscaping on page 26, and I read "the owner shall be responsible for .... ", Sub-Section B. If I read that correctly, it says "the owner" and reading through it I'd have to believe that Gerrity Oil would not be the owner. Griffiths stated that her recollection is that the "owner" is intended to be the operator of the facility. She felt that what would be preferable is to make it clear in paragraph 6 that the responsibility for compliances with the licensee, with Gerrity. She thought it would be helpful to clarify it and it could be done by revising paragraph 6 to make it clear that Gerrity is responsible for compliance with all of the performance standards. Lathrop was concerned about reclamation to the proper standards and the construction of the tank battery to the proper standards. He asked, if Gerrity would put some type of performance guarantee to 6