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<br />.• <br />NOTICE <br />The Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division has issued a proposed decision <br />approving an application for a permit to conduct coal mining and reclamation under <br />the provisions of the Colorado Surface Coal d4ining Reclamation Act of 1979. The <br />application was submitted by Bear Coal Company, Inc., Somer.; et, Colorado 81434, <br />for the Bear No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 Pli nes. <br />T.'1e Bear n'o. I and No. 2 mines are existing operations Iocate~ in Lots 1, 2, 3, <br />and the S'fSk'-'~SW'~ or that part of the SW'1SW'~ south of the North Fork of the Gunnison <br />River in Section 9; all of Section I6; SW.; N[d-'.rN~1N'~, Section 21; NE's, E'SNW;, Section 20; <br />SE-'1N[9?.r, ~E'3, SF]'r, Section 17; All in T135, R90[/, 6th Principal Aferidian in <br />the county of Gunnison, State of Colorado, consisting of 1,360 acres with a total <br />surface disturbance of 19.3 acres. <br />The legal description of the nroposed Bear No. 3 mine is as follows: <br />A parcel of land located in Sections 8 and 17; T13S, R90[J, county of Gunnison, <br />state of Colorado, more particularly described as follows: Section 17, SE-'r; <br />S'~NE~; NE'tNE'~; Section 8, Tract 'A'. <br />Beginning at a pcint ZOS ft. east of the southwest corner of the Se';SE;~ of <br />Section 8, being the point of beginning; thence S 830 51'56"W, 258.22 ft., <br />thence N 190 18'05"[/, 218.50 ft., thence Pa 050 11'05"[/, 194.60 ft., thence N <br />53° 21'55"[~7, 250.30 ft., thence N 830 32'55"E, 319.10 ft., thence S 100 11'55"W, <br />571.52 ft., thence P7 860 05'05"W, 70.34 ft. to the point of beginning. <br />Also, three right-of-ways described as follows: <br />I) A 30-foot right-of-way, 15 feet either side of the centerline of the <br />old access road to the Clark. /Edwards 'C' Coal Seam underground mine entries. <br />Ccmmencing at the point of intersection between said centerline and the east <br />side of Tract 'A' previously described and continuing along said centerline to <br />the intersection with the southern boundary of Section 8. <br />The centerline is more particularly described as folloeos: beginning at a <br />point 356 feet N 600 51'56" [d of the SW corner of the SE;SE's Section 8, thence <br />S 86° 35'09"E, IS6 ft., thence N 770 41'56" E, 17.9 ft., thence S 860 26'04"E, <br />75 ft., thence N 800 03'56"E, 200 ft., thence S 770 02'04"E, 782 ft., thence <br />S 32° 57'56"W, 32 ft., thence S 87° 27'56"W, 141 ft., thence S 69° 15'56"ra, <br />78 ft., thence S 570 16'56"[J, 110 ft., thence S 420 39'56"61, 63 ft., thence <br />S 810 54'56"w, 131 ft., thence 5 530 11'56"W, 58 ft., to the intersection with <br />the southern boundary of Section 8. <br />2) A 30-foot right-of-way, 15 feet either side of the centerline of the <br />access road from Somerset to the west side of Tract 'A' described previously. <br />The centerline is more particularly described as follows: beginning at a <br />point 123 feet N 49° 08'09"W of the S[J corner of the SE;SE-'r, Section 8; thence <br />S 62° 09'56"W, 175 ft.; thence S 580 09'56"[d, 85 ft.; thence S 2° 57'56"W, <br />115 ft.; thence S 790 06'56"W, 56 ft. From the south edge of the right-of-way <br />as described above, the right-of-way proceeds as follows: S 47° 51'56"W, <br />247 ft.,; thence S 93° 58'32"[d, 110 ft.; thence N 210 13'28"W, 194 ft.; thence <br />N 62° 10'32"E, 100 ft.,' thence S 210 25'28"E, 38 ft.; thence N 82° 22'32"E <br />44 ft.; thence N 680.90'32"E, 70 ft.; thence N 55° 28'32"E, 57 ft.; tht rce N <br />680 96'32"E, 52 ft.; thence N 80° 13'32"E, 17 ft.; to the north edge of the <br />riyht-of-way from the centerline of the road as previously described. <br />