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PUBLIC NOTICE <br />The Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology (Division), 1313 Sherman St, #215, <br />Denver, Colorado, 80203, has begun the process of terminating its jurisdiction over the <br />reclaimed Blue Flame Coal Mine. The site is located within the west 400 feet of the NE <br />'/a of the NE %a, and within the NW %a of the NE %<, of Section 31, T35N, Rl l W, New <br />Mexico Principal Meridian, La Plata County, Colorado. The site is situated <br />approximately seven miles southwest of Hesperus, Colorado, along La Plata County <br />Road 120. The permit area for this underground coal mine encompassed 53 acres, of <br />which 4.1 acres were approved for surface disturbance. The site was permitted in 1986 <br />by Blue Flame Coal Mining Company, P.O. Box 1425, Durango, Colorado, 81301. The <br />permittee was changed in 1991 to L&L Energy, Inc., 6130 S. Memorial, Tulsa, <br />Oklahoma, 74133. The Division permit number for this site was C-81-053. The <br />reclamation bond posted by the perrnittees was $41,600. On June 27, 1991, the pemut <br />was revoked, and the bond forfeited in its entirety by the Colorado Mined Land <br />Reclamation Board. The mine site was reclaimed by the Division during the period of <br />October through December, 1992. Reclamation work performed included the removal of <br />mine facilities and equipment, sealing two mine adits with bulkheads, backfilling and <br />grading the disturbed areas, placement of a plant growth medium over the disturbed <br />areas, reseeding the disturbed acreage, and planting shrubs within the disturbed azeas. <br />The Division subsequently returned to the former permittee a surplus from the forfeited <br />bond in the amount of $4100. Stability of the reclaimed slope, successful revegetation of <br />grasses, forbs, and shrubs, lack of noxious weeds, minimization of impacts to the <br />hydrologic balance within the previously permitted area, and prevention of material <br />damage to the hydrologic balance outside of the permitted azea have demonstrated that <br />reclamation during the last 11 yeazs has been successfully achieved. Written comments, <br />objections, and requests for an informal conference or a formal public hearing before the <br />Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Boazd maybe submitted to the Colorado Division of <br />Minerals and Geology at the address above within 30 days of the fourth publication of <br />this notice. <br />