Better Minerals & Aggregates Company
Route 522 North, P.O. Box 187
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia 25411
April 30, 2001
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Better Minerals & Aggregates Company and Affiliate Registrant Guarantors
Request for Withdrawal of Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration
Statement Nos. 333-32518 and 333-32518-01 through 333-32518-14 on
Form S-4 filed April 13, 2001
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
Better Minerals & Aggregates Company (the "Company"), on behalf of itself
and its affiliate registrant guarantors, requests withdrawal of Post-Effective
Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement referenced above pursuant to Rule
477 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. No securities were sold in
connection with the offering referred to in such Post-Effective Amendment.
We believed that the form, Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-4,
which was being filed solely to update the prospectus contained therein for
Chase Securities Inc. to make offers and sales of the Company's 13% Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2009 (the "Notes") in market-making transactions, most
reflected the substance of the addition of BMAC Services Co., Inc. as a
guarantor of the Notes. As subsequently advised by the SEC staff, we make this
request for withdrawal and, immediately thereafter, will file a new registration
statement on Form S-1 adding the additional guarantor and containing a
prospectus to be used in connection with such market-making transactions.
Please contact me at 314-258-2500 if you have any questions or comments
with respect to this request.
Sincerely,
/s/ Gary E. Bockrath
Gary E. Bockrath
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer