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~/ c7 <br />Ci a ~vc~o~ <br />NOTICE OF PROPOSED <br />DECISION <br />The Cooratlo Division of Minerals <br />and Geclogy~proposes to Approve <br />Technical Revision Application No., <br />101 (TR-10D for'the West Elk Mine <br />(Permit No. C-1980-00]), submitted <br />by Mountain Coal Company. LLC.' <br />Mountain Coal Company proposes <br />3 new methane tlrainage wells and' <br />pads antl a road on private IoM. <br />me West Elk Mine is a untlerground~ <br />coal mine locatetl in Gunnison, <br />Gounry, approximately 9 miles eas! <br />of Paonia, Colorado. Coal interest; <br />is Fetleral antl private, and IhD surer <br />face aXectetl is Federal antl_privaler <br />land. The permit area encompasses <br />approximately 10,386.30 acres. <br />This proposed tlecisicn is Dasetl on <br />e tintling that the prcposetl operation' <br />will wmply with all requirements off' <br />Me Colorado Surface Coal Mining <br />Reclamation Act, Section 34-33-1010 <br />et seq., C.R.S., antl the regulationsF <br />promulgated thereunder. <br />Copies of the proposetl decision, <br />includingstipulatians, are on file for. <br />public inspection at the Colorado <br />Division of Minerals antl Geology,' <br />Room 215, Centennial Building, 1313 <br />Sherman Street, Denver, Coloratlo„ <br />80203. Persons with an interest tha7, <br />may be atlvemely aHedetl by the- <br />proposetl tlecisicn may inquest a; <br />fartnal hearing before-the Minetl, <br />Lantl Reclamation Board on the pro- <br />posed tlecisicn. Such request muaP <br />be matle wiNin ten (10) days o~th6' <br />iNtial publication of this nolie, musC <br />be in wdtlng. and mbst stafc wilh~ <br />reasonable specificity the reasons fof <br />the request and the oble~ions to New <br />proposetl tlecisicn. <br />Published in the Delta County, <br />Indepentlent September f4, 2005. ;~ <br />.~~wvr o <br />