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PUBLIC NOTICE
<br />Twentymile Coal, LLC (TC), 29515 Routt County Road 27, Oak Creek, Colorado 80467, has
<br />submitted an application for a Technical Revision (TR) to the Foidel Creek Mine, Permit Number C-
<br />82-056. The revision (TR18-92), modifies the approved mining plans for the Wolf Creek Reserve
<br />(WCR) to extend the 7 -East longwall panel approximately 1,400 feet, reflect the associated
<br />development and mining of the associated coal reserves, and modifies the Mine Permit Area by adding
<br />approximately 40 acres to the current Permit Area in the NW'/4SE'/4 Section 12, T5N, R86W to
<br />encompass the panel extension and associated lease and subsidence areas.
<br />The mine permit area currently encompasses approximately 22,607 acres, located approximately 23
<br />miles southwest of Steamboat Springs on Routt County Road 33, and approximately 7.3 miles
<br />northwest of Oak Creek on Routt County Road 27. Mine offices and major surface facilities are
<br />located adjacent to Foidel Creek, near the intersection of these two roads. The mine permit area is
<br />covered by the Cow Creek, Dunkley, Milner, Mount Harris, Oak Creek, and Rattlesnake Butte USGS
<br />7.5 minute quadrangle maps. The lands affected by the proposed revision area are contiguous to the
<br />current Mine Permit Area, which includes a portion of Section 12, T5N, R86W. TC owns or controls
<br />the surface and coal within the current Permit Area, and the surface within the proposed extension area,
<br />and holds an existing State lease for the coal within the extension area. Surface and coal owners for
<br />these areas include TC through an affiliated company (Sage Creek Land and Reserves, LLC); the State
<br />of Colorado; the USDI-Bureau of Land Management; NRC-CO1, LLC; Camilletti & Sons; the Hunter
<br />Family Trust; Tamara Eggers; John and Hillary Rice; Marvin and Angeliques Doherty; William and
<br />Susan Mitzelfeld, David and Linda Male, Twentymile Sheep Company, LLC; Myron Walker Trust;
<br />Paul Swisher; Danny and Shirley Schuelke; Jason and Brandy Patrick; Gulf Oil Corporation; and the
<br />Ruth McCollister Trust. The ownership, precise location, and boundaries of lands within the Permit
<br />are identified on pages 2.03-13 through 2.08-18 and 2.03-22 and 2.03-23.1, and Maps 1 and 2, of the
<br />Mine Permit Application Package (PAP), and are included in this public notice by reference.
<br />Copies of the PAP, including the referenced Permit Revision application, (less confidential material)
<br />are available for inspection at the mine office and the office of the Colorado Division of Reclamation,
<br />Mining, and Safety. Copies of the Permit Revision applications are also available for public inspection
<br />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 Permit Revision application should be submitted to the State of
<br />Colorado, Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety (CDRMS), 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215,
<br />Denver, Colorado 80203-2273 within ten days of the last date of publication of this notice.
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