PUBLIC NOTICE
<br /> GCC Energy, LLC, 6473 County Road 120, Hesperus, Colorado, 81326, (970) 385-4528, has submitted a
<br /> complete application for a technical revision (TR-29) to a valid existing permit for the King Coal Mine (Permit C-
<br /> 81-035) with the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining&Safety. The purpose of the revision is to add three
<br /> additional portals and access roads immediately adjacent to the existing surface facilities.
<br /> The entire permit area is described as follows:
<br /> Township 34 North, Range 11 West, N.M.P.M.
<br /> Sec. 5: SW/4, E/2SE/4, Portions of W/2SE/4, Portions of S/2NE/4, Portions of NW/4
<br /> Sec. 6: N/2, N/2SW/4, E/2SE/4, Portions of W/2SE/4
<br /> Sec. 7: Portions of NE/4
<br /> Sec. 8: N/2NW/4, Portions of S/2NW/4, Portions of N/2NE/4
<br /> Township 35 North, Range 11 West, N.M.P.M.
<br /> Sec. 28: SW/4SW/4
<br /> Sec. 29: S/2SE/4, Portions of SW/4SW/4SW/4
<br /> Sec. 30: Portions of SE/4SE/4SE/4
<br /> Sec. 31: SE/4, S/2NE/4, S/2SW/4, Portions of the NE/4NE/4NE/4
<br /> Sec. 32: NE/4, NW/4, SW/4, Portions of NW/4SE/4, western portions of SW/4SE/4, portions of
<br /> NW/4NE/4SE/4
<br /> Township 35 North, Range 12 West, N.M.P.M.
<br /> Sec. 35 N/2SE/4
<br /> Sec. 36 All
<br /> Containing 2,705.4 acres more or less
<br /> All active mining activities of the mine lie to the north and south sides of Hay Gulch, approximately 4.5-6.5
<br /> miles southwest of Hesperus, CO, as identified on U.S.G.S. 7.5-minute quadrangles of Hesperus, Kline,
<br /> Thompson Park & Mormon Reservoir. The surface of the affected area is owned by the State of Colorado,
<br /> Huntington Ranches, Crawford Ranches, BLM, GCC Energy, Ute Mountain Tribe, Thomas&Patricia Compton,
<br /> Jack Wiltse, and Blast & Cast, Inc. The proposed land use at the completion of mining is rangeland.
<br /> A copy of the application is available for public review at the La Plata County Clerk and Recorder's Office, 679
<br /> Turner Drive, Durango, CO, and at the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining & Safety, 1313 Sherman St.,
<br /> Room 215, Denver, Colorado 80203, phone (303) 866-3567. Anyone with a valid interest may submit written
<br /> comments or objections within 10 days of the publication of this notice. All comments, objections, and requests
<br /> must be submitted in writing to the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining & Safety at the above address.
<br /> Published in The Durango Herald, , 2020.
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