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PUBLIC NOTICE
<br />GCC Energy, LLC, 6473 County Road 120, Hesperus, Colorado 81326, phone (970) 385 -4528,
<br />has filed an application for a technical revision (TR -23) to a valid existing permit for the King II
<br />Mine (permit C -81 -035) with the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining & Safety. The
<br />purpose of the revision is to increase the maximum annual coal production from 0.8 to 1.3
<br />million tons.
<br />The entire permit area is described as follows: T34N, R11W, N.M.P.M: Section 5: SW /4, W/2
<br />SE /4, S/2 SW /4 NW /4; Section 6: Lots 1 -5 (inclusive), E/2 NW /4, NE /4, N/2 SE /4, SE /4
<br />SE /4, SE /4 SW /4 SE /4; Section 7: NE /4 NE /4, NE /4 NW /4 NE /4; Section 8: N/2 NW /4.
<br />T35N, R11W, N.M.P.M.: Section 28: SW /4 SW /4; Section 29: S/2 SE /4; Section 31: Lot 4,
<br />SE /4 SW /4, SE /4, S/2 NE /4; Section 32: W /2, NE /4. A tract in Sections 29 and 30,
<br />Beginning at a point on the South line in said Section 29, Whence SW corner of said Section 29
<br />bears West, 9.16 feet; Thence N 22 37'W, 551.30 feet, more or less to south right -of -way in Co.
<br />Rd. 120; Thence N 84 23'E, 82.09 feet, to West right -of -way in Wright Coal Mine Road; Thence
<br />S 22 37'E, along said line, 560.0 feet to South line of said Section 29; Thence West along said
<br />South line 85.04 feet to point of beginning. T35N, R12W, N.M.P.M.: Section 36, Section 35:
<br />N/2 SE /4.
<br />The area affected for this revision is located in Section 36; T35N, R12W, N.M.P.M., La Plata
<br />County, Colorado. The surface of the affected area is owned by the State of Colorado. All
<br />active mining activities of the mine he to the north side of Hay Gulch, approximately 6.5 miles
<br />southwest of Hesperus, CO, as identified on U.S.G.S. 7.5- minute quadrangles of Hesperus,
<br />Kline, Thompson Park & Mormon Reservoir. The proposed land use at the completion of
<br />mining is rangeland.
<br />A copy of the application is available for public review at the La Plata County Clerk and
<br />Recorder's Office, 98 Everett St., Suite C, Durango, CO, and at the Colorado Division of
<br />Reclamation, Mining & Safety, 1313 Sherman St., Room 215, Denver, Colorado 80203, phone
<br />(303) 866 -3567. Anyone with a valid interest may submit written comments or objections
<br />within 10 days of the publication of this notice. All comments, objections, and requests must
<br />be submitted in writing to the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining & Safety at the above
<br />address. Published in The Durango Herald, , 2014.
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