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DELTA COUNTY
<br />PUBLICHDTICE
<br />Mountain Coaf Company LLC
<br />, P.O, Box 691, Somerset,
<br />INDEPENDENT
<br />81434, 19701 9295015, has filed a
<br />Phase
<br />Phew III Bond Release Request
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<br />Application to MCC'$ Mining and
<br />Reclamation Permit No. C -80 -007
<br />with the Colorado Mined Land
<br />Rscfemation Board 480ardl, under
<br />the provisions of the Colorado Sur
<br />401 Meeker St.
<br />face Coe! Mining Reclamation Act
<br />P.O. Box 809
<br />of 1979. The permit was originally
<br />issued by the Board In July 1981,
<br />Delta, CO 81416
<br />and subsequently renewed In
<br />August 1988, January 1993 leffec.
<br />tive August t891), July 1998, July
<br />2001, end April 2007 (affective July
<br />AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
<br />2M.1, and July 20 ft. The currartr
<br />five -year permit term expires July
<br />31, 2018, The State of Colorado
<br />holds a surety reclamation bond
<br />in the amount of $15,000,000 for
<br />the mina that exceeds the current
<br />STATE OF COLORADO
<br />recfealion llablfity. The West Elk
<br />Mine m Five -yeer permit area contains
<br />)S8.
<br />lands In Sections 9.11, 13.36, T13S,
<br />COUNTY OF DELTA
<br />R90W, 8th PM; and Sections 23 -28,
<br />T135, R91W, 8th PMr and Sections
<br />1.5, 8 -t2, T14S, R90W, 8th PM In
<br />Delta end Gunnison Counties. The
<br />1, Randal Sunderland, do solemnly swear that l am publisher of
<br />location of the lends can be found
<br />the Delta County Independent; that the same is a weekly news
<br />on the USGS 7.5 minute Somerset
<br />and Minnesota Pass Quadrangle
<br />paper printed, in whole or in part, and published in the County
<br />Topographic Maps. The currant
<br />of Delta, State of Colorado, continuously and uninterruptedly in
<br />permit area encompasses approxi.
<br />mately 17,154.9acras.
<br />said County of Delta for a period of more than fifty two consecu-
<br />MCC Is requesting Phase III Bond
<br />tive weeks prior to the first publication of the annexed legal notice
<br />Release for reclaimed drill sites in
<br />the Thermal Event area, Lone Pine
<br />or advertisement; that said newspaper has been admitted to the
<br />facilities arse, and reclaimed drill
<br />United States mails as second class matter under the provisions
<br />sites and access road in the West
<br />Point area, These areas cover ap-
<br />of the Act of March 3, 1879, and all amendments thereof, and that
<br />proximelefy 24.2 acres of private
<br />said newspaper is a weekly newspaper duly qualified for publish-
<br />and National Forest System lands
<br />speclRcauy located within por.
<br />ing legal notices and advertisements within the meaning of the laws
<br />tions of Sections 18, 18, 20, 27 and
<br />of the State of Colorado; that the annexed legal notice or advertis-
<br />29, Township 13 South, Renga 90
<br />west, In Gunnison County, Colo -
<br />ment was published in the regular and entire issue four con-
<br />rado• These drill sites and roads
<br />secutive insertions; that the first publication of said notice was in
<br />were necessary for coal explore.
<br />tion and for mina ventilation. MCC
<br />the issue of said newspaper dated December 25th, A.D., 2013,
<br />is requesting 9 release of all to.
<br />and that the last publication of said notice was in the issue of
<br />malning reclsmetlon bond ffablllly
<br />lapproximetafy $180,000.001, for
<br />said newspaper dated January 15th, A.D., 2014.
<br />a total release of t00% of the ap.
<br />plicable bond amount posted for
<br />those sites, as allowed by Colorado
<br />In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of
<br />Statute and Rule 3.03. This amount
<br />January, A.D., 2014.
<br />will be verified by the Stele of Col.
<br />orado. The reclaimed arses have
<br />met the applicable vegetation bond
<br />release crilerle for Phase III bond
<br />release.
<br />Reclamation of the verloua drill
<br />site locations and roads within.
<br />General manager of said Delta County Indepe nt
<br />MCC's permit were completed be.
<br />twean 1998 end 2002. This included
<br />proper plugging and abandonment
<br />Subscribed and sworn before me, a Notary Public in and for the
<br />of drill holes, as well as beckf lling
<br />County of Delta, State of Colorado, this 15th day of January, A.D.,
<br />and regrading of drill pad locations
<br />and rdeds, and replacement of sal -.
<br />2014,
<br />vaged topsoil. The well sites and
<br />roads proposed for bond release
<br />havd been revegataled using vari.
<br />ous methods of seeding, fertilizing,
<br />j-
<br />and mulching, including the instal -
<br />AA
<br />lation of strew and eroslon control
<br />Notary Public
<br />matting.
<br />A copy of the Phase ill Bond Re.
<br />Passe application is available for
<br />My commission expires 12/24/2017
<br />review at the Colorado division of
<br />900 Cypress Wood Lane
<br />Reclamation, Mining and Safety,,
<br />1313 Sherman Street, Roortl 215
<br />Delta, CO 81416 pATRICIA SUNDERLAND
<br />ERLAND
<br />Denver, CO 80203, phone 1303) 888 -
<br />3587, and the Gunnison County
<br />NOTARY PUBLIC
<br />Planning Office, 221 N.1230. Cpfn,
<br />Suite 0, Gunnison, CO 81230. Cpm-
<br />STATE OFCOLORADO
<br />manta or objections concerning the
<br />application should be directed
<br />My Cofmnlssion Expires 12 -24 -2017
<br />to
<br />tha CORMS at the above address
<br />not later than 30 days after the ilral
<br />data of publication of this notice
<br />1publlshed 4 times conseculivelyl
<br />in order to be considered.
<br />Published In the Della County
<br />Independent December 25, 2013,
<br />January 1, Band 15, 20 N.
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