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Dov NT OF T y�'y� United States Department of the Interior 4wP�'� 4 OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT N"CH ,e°9 3. Western Region Office 1999 Broadway, Suite 3320 Denver, CO 80202-3050 January 31, 2017 Certified Mail — Return Receipt Requested Mr. Tom Bird Manager, Coal Services GCC Energy, LLC King II Mine 6473 County Road 120 Hesperus, Colorado 81326 RE: Administrative Completeness Determination Application to Renew Federal Permit No. CO -106A OSMRE Project No. UM.CO.0106.2101 Dear Mr. Bird: CO -0106 RECEIVED SEB 0 2 2017 Division of & cla a on, Mining The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) has received GCC Energy LLC's (GCC) December 2, 2016, application requesting renewal of King II Mine Permit: CO -0106A for a five- year period: April 17, 2017 to April 17, 2022. We have assigned the renewal application OSMRE's Administrative Records Management System number 16/12/07-33 and Project Number UM.CO.0106.2101. The permit renewal application is submitted to continue operations pursuant to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Title 30, Subchapter E, Part 750, 773 and 774. OSMRE has completed an initial review of GCC's permit renewal application and has determined that your permit renewal application is Administratively Complete. Your application is ready for review by the public and local, State, and Federal government agencies. In accordance with federal regulation 30 CFR 774.15, applications for permit renewal "applications for permit renewal shall be subject to the requirements of public notification and participation contained in 30 CFR 773.6." As such, the renewal application provided a draft public notice for publication. As required, you must now place an advertisement in a newspaper of general circulation in the locality of the King II Mine. The advertised public notice must be published at least once a week for four consecutive weeks. The public review and comment period will start when the first advertisement is published and will continue until 30 days after the fourth advertisement is published. However, GCC has informed OSMRE that a proposed permit revision is planned for submission to OSMRE during February 2017. Given these circumstances, and in an effort to communicate with the public clearly and efficiently, we recommend that the public notice include information associated with both the permit renewal and the proposed permit revision. Once the permit revision is determined administratively complete, public notification can commence in accordance with 30 CFR 773.6.