DELTA COUNTY RECEIVED
<br />INDEPENDENT FLB,22o,a
<br />401 Meeker St. �AlRld4►TION
<br />P.O. Box 809 .a>::nr
<br />Delta, CO 81416
<br />AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
<br />Theme Co oraOF do� PROPOSEDCISION
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<br />Reclamation, Mining and Safety
<br />proposes to approve Technical
<br />'Revision Application No. 143 (TR -
<br />STATE OF COLORADO143)
<br />for the West Elk Mine (Permit
<br />No. C-1880-007), submitted by
<br />Mountain Coal Company, I.I.C. TR -
<br />COUNTY OF DELTA SS.
<br />143 proposes to (1) extend existing
<br />longwall panel LWE8 approximate-
<br />ly 1,300' within the current permit
<br />boundary, and (2) update the per -
<br />I, Randal Sunderland, do solemnly swear that I am general
<br />mit application packet with details
<br />manager of the Delta County Independent; that the same is a weekly
<br />of recently modified federal coal
<br />leases COC1352 and Coc57232.
<br />newspaper printed, in whole or in part, and published in the County
<br />All of the proposed underground
<br />of Delta, State of Colorado, continuously and uninterruptedly in
<br />development is within the current
<br />permit boundary and the newly
<br />said County of Delta for a period of more than fifty-two consecu-
<br />modified lease boundaries.
<br />tive weeks prior to the first publication of the annexed legal notice
<br />The West Elk Mine is a/an under-
<br />ground coal mine located in Delta,
<br />or advertisement; that said newspaper has been admitted to the
<br />Gunnison County, approximately
<br />9 miles E of Paonia, Colorado.
<br />United States mails as second-class matter under the provisions
<br />Coal interest is federal and private,
<br />of the Act of March 3, 1879, and all amendments thereof, and that
<br />and the surface affected is fed-
<br />said newspaper is a weekly newspaper duly qualified for publish-
<br />eral and private land. The permit
<br />area encompasses approximately
<br />ing legal notices and advertisements within the meaning of the laws
<br />17.234.90 acres.
<br />of the State of Colorado; that the annexed legal notice or adver-
<br />This proposed decision is based on
<br />a finding that the proposed opera-
<br />tisement was published in the regular and entire issue of every
<br />tion will comply with all require-
<br />Mentaof the Colorado Surface
<br />number of said weekly newspaper for the period of one con-
<br />Coal Mining Reclamation Act,
<br />secutive insertion; that the first publication of said notice was in
<br />Section 34 33 101, at seq., C.R.S.,
<br />and the regulations promulgated
<br />the issue of said newspaper dated February 7th, A.D., 2018,
<br />thereunder.
<br />and that the last publication of said notice was in the issue of
<br />Copies of the proposed decision,
<br />said newspaper dated February 7th, A.D., 2018.
<br />including stipulations, are on
<br />file for public inspection at the
<br />Colorado Division of Reclamation,
<br />In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this
<br />Mining and Safety, Room 215,
<br />Centennial Building, 1313 Sherman
<br />7th day of February, A.D., 2018.
<br />Street, Denver, Colorado 80203.
<br />Persons with an interest that may
<br />be adversely affected by the pro-
<br />posed decision may request a
<br />formal hearing before the Mined
<br />Land Reclamation Board on the
<br />proposed decision. Such request
<br />must 6e made within ten (10) days
<br />General manager of said Delta County Independent
<br />of the initial publication of this
<br />notice, must be in writing, and
<br />must state with reasonable speci-
<br />Subscribed and sworn before me, a Notary Public in and for the
<br />ficity the reasons for the request
<br />County of Delta, State of Colorado, this 7th day of February A.D.,
<br />and the objections to the proposed
<br />flecision.
<br />2018.
<br />Published in the Delta County
<br />Independent February 7, 2018.
<br />Notary Public
<br />My commission expires 12/24/2021
<br />900 Cypress Wood Lane
<br />Delta, CO 81416
<br />PATRICIA SUNDERLAND
<br />19934019033
<br />NOTARY PUBLIC
<br />STATE OF COLORADO
<br />My Commission Expires 12-24-2021
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