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Public Notice
<br />Mountain Coal Company, L.L.C.
<br />(MCC), P.O. Box 591 Somerset,
<br />CO 81434,(970) 929.5015, has
<br />filed a complete application for
<br />a Technical Revision (TR-112) to
<br />MCC's Mining end Reclamation
<br />Permit No. C-60-007 with the
<br />Colorado Mined Land Reclama-
<br />tion Board (Board), under the
<br />provisions of the Colorado Sur-
<br />lece Coal Mining Reclamation
<br />Act of 1979. The permit was
<br />originally Issued by the Board in-
<br />July 1981, and subsequently re-
<br />newed in August 1986, January
<br />1993, (Effective August 1991),
<br />July 1996, July 2001, and Febru.
<br />ary-13, 2007. The current
<br />five-year. permit term expires
<br />February 13, 2012. The West Elk
<br />Mine five-year permit area con.
<br />tains ands In Sections 9.11,
<br />13.36, T13 S, R90W, 6th PM; and
<br />Sections 23.26, T13 South,
<br />R91W, 6th PM,'and Sections 1-5,
<br />8.12; T14S, R90W, 6th PM In
<br />Delta and Gunnison Counties.
<br />The location of.the lands can be
<br />found on the USGS 7.5 minute
<br />Somerset and Minnesota Pass
<br />Quadrangle Topographic Maps.
<br />The current permit area, Includ-
<br />ane 0rainNage wens on Federal
<br />Lease 0. C-1362 and
<br />COC-67232. The revision would
<br />allow for 131 MOW pads end
<br />10.02 miles of associated USFS
<br />low-volume roads. This techni.
<br />cal revision will not result in any
<br />Increase In production above
<br />currently permitted levels. This
<br />technical revision would in-
<br />crease the surface disturbed
<br />area by approximately 80 acres
<br />in Sections 29, 30, 32, 33, 34
<br />and 35, T13S, R90W, 6th PM,
<br />and Sections 1 through 5, 9
<br />through 11, of T14S, R90W, 6th
<br />PM. Copies of the technical revi-
<br />sion aoolmatfon are available for
<br />of Reclamation, Mining, and
<br />Safety (CORNS) Office, Cen-
<br />tennial Building, 1313 Sherman
<br />Street, Room 215, Denver,
<br />Colorado, 80203, phone (303).
<br />866.3557, and the Gunnison
<br />County Clerk and Recorders Of.
<br />fice, 221 N. Wisconsin, Suite D
<br />Gunnison, CO 81230. Comments,
<br />objections, requests for Informal
<br />conference concerning the ap.
<br />plication for permit revision, or
<br />requests for a public hearing to
<br />determine whether the interests
<br />of the public and affected land-
<br />owners (re: proximity to public
<br />road right-of-way) should be di-
<br />rected to the CDRMS at the
<br />above address not later than 30
<br />days after the last date of publi-
<br />cation of this notice in order to
<br />be considered. If a public hear-
<br />ing Is requested, It would be
<br />held at a location in the area of
<br />the proposed operations.
<br />Published: October 24, 2007.
<br />RECEIVED
<br />JUN 2 6 2008
<br />STATE OF COLORADO
<br />County of (Mesa) Mining and
<br />Terry Laubhan
<br />Being duly sworn, says that I am Legal Secretary of
<br />The Daily Sentinel, a daily newspaper, published and duly printed in
<br />The County of Mesa, State of Colorado; that said newspaper has a
<br />general circulation in said County and has been continuously and
<br />uninterruptedly published therein, during a period of at least
<br />fifty-two consecutive weeks next prior to the first publication
<br />of the annexed notice; that said newspaper is a newspaper within the
<br />meaning of the act of the general Assembly of the State of Colorado,
<br />entitled "An Act to regulate the printing of legal notices and
<br />advertisements," and amendments thereto; that the notice of which
<br />the annexed is a printed copy taken from said newspaper, was published
<br />in said newspaper, and in the regular and entire issue of every number
<br />thereof mo a week for 1 successive week:
<br />that said notice was so published in said newspaper proper and not in
<br />any supplement thereof, and that first publication of said notice as
<br />aforesaid, was on the 24th day of October . 2007,
<br />and the last, on the 24th day of October. 2007.
<br />Copies of each number of said paper in which said notice and/or
<br />list was published were delivered by carriers or transmitted by
<br />mail to each of the subscribers of said newspaper, The Daily Sentinel,
<br />according to the accustomed mode of business in this office.
<br />Subscribed and sworn to before me, this day of e 20 ` ??
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