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<br />PUBLIC NOTICE
<br />Energy Fuels Mining Company (EFMC), One Tabor Center, Suite 2500, 1200 17th Street, Denver,
<br />Colorado, hu filed an application for revision of approved mining and reclamation plans for the Raton
<br />Creek Mine. The approved Office of Mined Land Reclamation (OMLR) permit, Permit No. C-82-055,
<br />addresses existing underground coal mining and related surface operations and reclamation attivities. The
<br />proposed revision, Technical Revision No. 13 (TR-13), addresses drainage design revisions developed in
<br />response to concerns identified by OMLR in recen[ site inspections.
<br />Areu to be effetted by the proposed plan revision are located in Las Animu Cotmty. The Raton Creek
<br />Mine area is looted approximately three miles south of Trinidad, Colorado, off Interstate 25. The mine
<br />area is bounded on the west by Interstate 25 and lies in the Starkville Gulch drainage. The Santa Fe and
<br />Burlington Northern loadouts are located in the Trinidad railroad yards.
<br />The legal description for the Raton Creek mine permit area and the loadouts is u follows:
<br />Raton Creek Mine Area:
<br />T.33S, R63W., SW'/. Sec 31;
<br />T.33S., R.64W., all except portions of the Wy:, Wy:, Sec 36;
<br />T.345., R.63W, all Sec 6 and
<br />N'h, NE'/,, NE'/, NW'/, Sec 7;
<br />T.34S., R.64W., E'/z, Eyz, Sec 1 of the 6th P.M.
<br />Santa Fe Loadouts Nos. 1 and 2:
<br />Southeast of Interstate 25 between N. Linden Avenue on the Northeast and Commercial Street
<br />on the Southwest in:
<br />T.325., R.64W., W'/:, NW'/, NW'/., Sec 18;
<br />T32S., R.64W., E'/:, NE'/, NE'/, Sec 13;
<br />T32S., R63W., WS'z, NW'/., Sec l8;
<br />T32S., R.64W., E'/z, N'/, Sec 13 of the 6th P.M.
<br />Burlington Loadout Area:
<br />Eut of Interstate 25 and generally North of Goddard Avenue in:
<br />T.32S., R63W., NW'/,, SE'/., NE'/, SW'/., Sec 7, of the 6th P.M.
<br />These sections are covered by the U.S. Geological Survey 7.5 minute Trinidad West and Starkville
<br />quadrangles.
<br />The following hold surface and mineral interests within the mine and Loadout area permit boundaries:
<br />Mr. and Mrs. Nick Cimiro
<br />Mr. and Mrs. Alhert luppa, Jr.
<br />Burlington Northern Railroad
<br />Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
<br />Gilbert Griswold, et. al.
<br />Complete copies of the Raton Creek Permit Application document including proposed revisioru are on
<br />file and available for public inspection in both the Clerk and Recorders Office in the Lu Animu County
<br />Courthouse, Trinidad, Colorado, and the OMLR Offices located at the following address:
<br />Office of Mined Land Reclamation
<br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215
<br />Denver, Colorado 80203
<br />Phone: (303)866-3567
<br />Comments or objettions concerning the application for permi[ revision or requests for informal
<br />conference can be directed to the OMLR at the above address.
<br />A:~B56ATR U.REV
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