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<br />INDEPENDENT
<br />401 Meeker St.
<br />NOTICE OF PROPOSED DEC4SION
<br />P.O. Box 809 s t!'�
<br />The Colorado Division of
<br />Reclamation, Mining and Safety
<br />Delta, CO 81416 {�
<br />proposes to approve Technical
<br />Revision Application No. ' 135
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<br />(TR -135) for the West Elk Mine
<br />(Permit No. C- 1980
<br />AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION Pv� aak`�
<br />6
<br />-007), submitted
<br />by Mountain Coal Company, LLC.
<br />The Mountain Coal Company, LLC
<br />has submitted a Technical Revision
<br />to the West Elk Mine's The
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<br />STATE OF COLORADO
<br />permit.
<br />revision proposes to change the
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<br />location of four MOW drill pads
<br />and light -use roads. The origi-
<br />nal pad and road locations were
<br />approved with Permit Revision 14.
<br />The proposed pad and road loca-
<br />I, Randal Sunderland, do solemnly swear that I am managing
<br />tions were laid out in the field
<br />the assistance and approval
<br />Forest Service personnel.
<br />editor of the Delta County Independent; t; that the same is a weekly
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<br />There will be no changes in the
<br />newspaper printed, in whole or in part, and published in the County
<br />Ynine's permitted or affected acre -
<br />of Delta, State of Colorado, continuously and uninterruptedly in
<br />%hers. With the proposed changes
<br />;Ettere will be a decrease in the
<br />said County of Delta for a period of more than fifty -two consecu-
<br />brine s disturbed acreage of 0.8
<br />tive weeks prior to the first publication of the annexed legal notice
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<br />acres. There will be an increase in
<br />the mine's reclamation liability as
<br />or advertisement; that said newspaper has been admitted to the
<br />i result of the proposed changes.
<br />`s his liability increase was deter -
<br />United States mails as second -class matter under the provisions
<br />mined to be $43,357.00.
<br />of the Act of March 3, 1879, and all amendments thereof, and that
<br />7be West Elk Mine is a /an under
<br />said newspaper is a weekly newspaper dul y Q ualified for P ublish-
<br />ground coal mine located Delta,
<br />Gunnison County, approximately
<br />ing legal notices and advertisements within the meaning of the laws
<br />9 miles E of Paonia, Colorado.
<br />of the State of Colorado; that the annexed legal notice or adver-
<br />Coal interest is federal and private,
<br />and the sufface affected is fed -
<br />tisement was published in the regular and entire issue of every
<br />eral and private land. The permit
<br />number of said weekly newspaper for the period of one con-
<br />area encompasses . approximately
<br />17,154.90 acres.
<br />secutive insertion; that the first publication of said notice was in
<br />This proposed decision is based on
<br />the issue of said newspaper dated August 6th, A.D., 2014, and
<br />a finding that the proposed opera -
<br />tion will comply with all require -
<br />that the last publication of said notice was in the issue of
<br />ments of the Colorado Surface
<br />said newspaper dated August 6th, A.D., 2014.
<br />Coal Mining Reclamation Act,
<br />Section 34 -33 -101, at seq., C.R.S.,
<br />and the regulations promulgated
<br />In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this
<br />thereunder.
<br />copies of the proposed decision,
<br />6th day of August, A.D., 2014.
<br />including stipulations, are on
<br />file for Public inspection at the
<br />Colorado Division of Reclamation,
<br />Mining and Safety, Room 215,
<br />Centennial Building, 1313 Sherman
<br />Street, Denver, Colorado 80203.
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<br />Persons with an interest that may
<br />be adversely affected by the pro-
<br />General manager of said Delta County Independent
<br />Posed decision may request a
<br />formal hearing before the Mined
<br />Land Reclamation Board on the
<br />Subscribed and sworn before me, a Notary Public in and for the
<br />proposed decision. Such request
<br />County of Delta, State of Colorado, this 6th day of August A.D.,
<br />must be made within ten (10) days
<br />of the initial publication of this
<br />2014.
<br />notice, must be in writing, and
<br />must state with reasonable speci-
<br />ficity the reasons for the request
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<br />and the objections to the proposed
<br />decision.
<br />Published in the Delta County
<br />Notary Public
<br />Independent August 6, 2014.
<br />My commission expires 12/24/2017
<br />900 Cypress Wood Lane
<br />Delta, CO 81416
<br />PATRICIA SUNDERLAND
<br />NOTARY PUBLIC
<br />STATE OF COLORADO
<br />My Commission Expires 12 -24 -2017
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