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Twentyinile Coal, LLC (TC), 29515 Routt County Road 27, Oak Creek, Colorado 80467, has <br />submitted an application for a Technical Revisions (TR) to the Foidel Creek Mine, Pennit Number C- <br />82-056. The revision (TR17-88) addresses a modification to the existing approved mining pen -nit to <br />construct two drill pads, construct one short access road and improve another existing road, install two <br />additional thickener underflow boreholes, and install connecting pipelines, a pump boost station, and <br />associated ancillary facilities in the Southwest Mining District (SWMD) in the ISW Panel and the <br />Westem Mining District (WMD) in the 12 -Left Panel. The boreholes will allow coal fines from the <br />existing Washplant Facility to be transferred and placed in sealed and abandoned underground mine <br />workings <br />The mine permit area encompasses approximately 22,607 acres, located approximately 23 miles <br />southwest of Steamboat Springs on Routt County Road 33, and approximately 7.3 miles northwest of <br />Oak Creek on Routt County Road 27. Mine offices and major surface facilities are located adjacent to <br />Foidel Creek, near the intersection of these two roads. The mine pen -nit area is covered by the Cow <br />Creek, Dunkley, Milner, Mount Harris, Oak Creek, and Rattlesnake Butte USGS 7.5 minute <br />quadrangle maps. The lands affected by the proposed revision are located in Sections 25, 26, and 36 of <br />T5N, R87W and Sections 30 and 31 of T5N, R86W; and surface owners for this area include Sage <br />Creek Land and Reserves, LLC (an affiliate of TC), Twentymile Coal, LLC, and Camilletti & Sons. <br />The Mine Permit Area includes all or portions of Sections 7 through 9, T4N, R86W; T5N, R86W, <br />except Sections 34 through 36; and Sections 13, 22 through 24, 25 through 27, and 34 through 36, <br />TSN, R87W. The ownership, precise location, and boundaries of lands within the Permit are identified <br />on pages 2.03-13 through 2.0318.3 and 2.03-22 and 2.03-33.5, and Maps I and 2, of the Mine Permit <br />Application Package (PAP), and are included in this public notice by reference. <br />Copies of the PAP, including the referenced Technical Revision application, (less confidential <br />material) are available for inspection at the imine office and the office of the Colorado Division of <br />Reclamation, Mining, and Safety. Copies of the Technical Revision applications are also available for <br />public inspection at the: <br />Office of Clerk and Recorder <br />Routt County <br />552 Lincoln Avenue <br />P.O. Box 773598 <br />Steamboat Springs, Colorado 80477 <br />Written comments or objections to the Technical Revision application should be submitted to the State <br />of Colorado, Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety (CDRMS), 1313 Shennan Street, Room <br />215, Denver, Colorado 80203-2273 within ten days of the date of publication of this notice. Some of <br />the proposed activities would occur within 100 feet of the outside right-of-way of Routt County Road <br />27. A public hearing to determine whether the interests of the public and affected landowners will be <br />protected can be requested by contacting the CDRMS in writing within 10 days after the publication of <br />this notice. If a hearing is requested, it would be held in either Steamboat Springs or Hayden, both of <br />which are in the vicinity of the proposed operations. <br />