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592 Main Street, Suite 6 • Meeker, Colorado 81641-0724
<br />Phone (970)8784017 • FAX (970)8784016
<br />STATE OF COLORADO
<br />COUNTY OF RIO BLANCO
<br />Pursuant to the Rules and Regulation of the Colorado
<br />Mined Land Reclamation Board published August
<br />1980, and pursuant to the Colorado Surface Coal
<br />Mining Reclamation Act 34-33-101, et seq., notice
<br />is hereby given of the filing of an application for Phase
<br />I Bond Release of a portion of the Colowyo Mine
<br />site. The application pertains to the existing Colowyo
<br />Coal Mine, Permit No. C-1981-019 by Colowyo Coal
<br />Company L.P., 5731 State Highway No. 13,
<br />Meeker, Colorado 81641, filed with the Colorado
<br />Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety
<br />(CDRMS), Colorado Department of Natural
<br />Resources, 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215, Denver,
<br />Colorado 80203 and approved by the Division on
<br />April 5, 2013 (latest Permit Renewal). The
<br />Colowyo Mine is located approximately 28 miles
<br />south of Craig, Colorado.
<br />The bond release areas applied for totals 129.6 acres
<br />that were reclaimed in 2016. The status of the
<br />reclamation is consistent with the requirements of
<br />the approved reclamation plan which includes backfill
<br />and regrading to the approved post mine
<br />topography, variable topsoil depth replacement, and
<br />seeding with the approved seed mixture. Exhibit
<br />1 of the bond release application presents all of the
<br />reclaimed areas a. Listed below is a general legal
<br />description of these areas:
<br />Township 3 North, Range 93 West of the 6th P.M.
<br />pSection 9 – NW'% S%, and W'%. N%;
<br />Section 9 – SE 1/4 SE Y,;
<br />Section 10 – SW % SW'/,;
<br />Section 15 – NW'/ NW Y.;
<br />Section 16 – NE'/. NE '%
<br />Colowyo currently holds a self -bond (Bond No. SB -
<br />010) in the amount of $80,517,829. With this bond
<br />release appkakn, the Colowyo Mine will be requesting
<br />refnqulshment of 601/o of the band held for the parcels
<br />applied for under this epplicaflon.
<br />A copy of the bond release application is on file at
<br />the Moffat Count Clerk and Recorder's Office located
<br />in the Moffat County Courthouse, 221 West
<br />Victory Way, Craig, Colorado 81625 and the Rio
<br />Blanco County Clerk and Recorder's Office in the
<br />Rio Blanco Courthouse located at 555 Main
<br />Street #303, Meeker, CO, 81641. Written
<br />comments, dmcrlans, and requests for a public hearing
<br />or informal conference concerning this bond
<br />release application should be addressed to the
<br />Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety,
<br />Colorado Department of Natural Resources, 1313
<br />Sherman Street, Room 215, Denver, Colorado 80203.
<br />Comments must be filed within thirty (30) days from
<br />the last date of this publication, or within thirty (30)
<br />days of the completed inspection by the CDRMS,
<br />whichever is later.
<br />Publish: February, 9, 16, 23 and March 2, 2017
<br />Rio Blanco Herald Times
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<br />I, Debbie Watson, do solemnly swear that I am the
<br />office manager acting on behalf of Samantha Turner,
<br />owner/publisher of the Rio Blanco Herald Times,
<br />formerly known as The Meeker Herald and The Rangely
<br />Times weekly newspapers; that the same is a weekly
<br />newspaper published in the County of Rio Blanco, State
<br />of Colorado, and has a general circulation therein; that
<br />said newspaper has been published continuously and
<br />uninterruptedly in said County of Rio Blanco for a period
<br />of more than fifty-two consecutive weeks next prior to the
<br />first publication of the annexed legal notice or
<br />advertisement; that said newspaper has been admitted to
<br />the United States mails as second-class matter under the
<br />provision of the Act of March 3, 1879, or any
<br />amendments thereof; and that said newspaper is a weekly
<br />newspaper duly qualified for publishing legal notices and
<br />advertisements within the meaning of the laws of the
<br />State of Colorado.
<br />That the annexed legal notice or advertisement was
<br />published in the regular and entire issue of every number
<br />of said weekly newspaper for the period of 1_
<br />consecutive insertions; and that the first publication of
<br />said notice was in the issue of said newspaper dated
<br />A.D. 2011 and that the last
<br />publicatiol of said notice was in the issue of said
<br />newspaper dated, A–/UA Z A.D. 201-.
<br />In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this
<br />Zai day of AA4LlLQ_b__ A.D. 201.
<br />Debbie Watson, office manager acting on behalf
<br />of Samantha Turner, owner/publisher
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<br />Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notarY public in
<br />and for the County of Rio Blanco, State of Colorado, this
<br />2nd day of _� _ A., D. 201 rl .
<br />No€my public
<br />PATTI J. HOKE
<br />NOTARY PUBLIC
<br />STATE OF COLORADO
<br />NOTARY ID #19994026925
<br />My Commission Expires October 17, 2019
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