2017-03-10_REVISION - C1981019 ‎(8)‎

• Permit No: C1981019
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 3/10/2017
• Doc Name: Application
• From: Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc
• To: DRMS
• Type & Sequence: SL11
• Email Name: ZTT
• Email Name: JRS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Colowyo Coal Company L.P.
B. Public Notice
Pursuant to the Rules and Regulation of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board
published August 1980, and pursuant to the Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation
Act 34-33-101, et seq., notice is hereby given of the filing of an application for Phase I
Bond Release of a portion of the Colowyo Mine site. The application pertains to the
existing Colowyo Coal Mine, Permit No. C-1981-019 by Colowyo Coal Company L.P.,
5731 State Highway No. 13, Meeker, Colorado 81641, filed with the Colorado Division
of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (CDRMS), Colorado Department of Natural
Resources, 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215, Denver, Colorado 80203 and approved by
the Division on April 5, 2013 (latest Permit Renewal). The Colowyo Mine is located
approximately 28 miles south of Craig, Colorado.
The bond release areas applied for totals 129.6 acres that were reclaimed in 2016. The
status of the reclamation is consistent with the requirements of the approved reclamation
plan which includes backfill and regrading to the approved post mine topography,
variable topsoil depth replacement, and seeding with the approved seed mixture. Exhibit
1 of the bond release application presents all of the reclaimed areas a. Listed below is a
general legal description of these areas:
Township 3 North, Range 93 West of the 6th P.M.
Section 9 —
NW'/4 S%2, and W%2 N%2;
Section 9 —
SE 1/4 SE %4;
Section 10
— SW %4 SW 1/4;
Section 15
— NW 1/4 NW 1/4;
Section 16
— NE 1/4 NE 1/4
Colowyo currently holds a self -bond (Bond No. SB -010) in the amount of $80,517,829.
With this bond release application, the Colowyo Mine will be requesting relinquishment
of 60% of the bond held for the parcels applied for under this application.
A copy of the bond release application is on file at the Moffat Count Clerk and
Recorder's Office located in the Moffat County Courthouse, 221 West Victory Way,
Craig, Colorado 81625 and the Rio Blanco County Clerk and Recorder's Office in the
Rio Blanco Courthouse located at 555 Main Street #303, Meeker, CO, 81641. Written
comments, objections, and requests for a public hearing or informal conference
concerning this bond release application should be addressed to the Colorado Division of
Reclamation Mining and Safety, Colorado Department of Natural Resources, 1313
Sherman Street, Room 215, Denver, Colorado 80203.
Comments must be filed within thirty (30) days from the last date of this publication,
or within thirty (30) days of the completed inspection by the CDRMS, whichever is
later.
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