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<br />401 Meeker St. NOTICE OF PROPOSED
<br />P.O. Box 809 DECISION
<br />ECEIVE® The Colorado Division ofReclamationj
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<br />Application No. 11 (PR-11), submittal
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<br />JAN 13 ?00? by Bowie Resources, LLC (BRL) for
<br />coal mining permit at the Bowie N
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<br />AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION ®ivislot; t c43clamation, PR-11, BRL is proposing to revisal
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<br />Minim and Safety its approved mine plan by extendin
<br />mining of the B-seam coal to the
<br /> north and changing the general on
<br />entation of the longwall panels fro
<br /> east-west to north-south. BRL ha
<br />STATE OF COLORADO obtained a modification of Federal
<br /> Coal Lease COC 61209 for this addi-
<br /> tional northern area, which woul
<br />COUNTY OF DELTA SS' increase the permit area by abo
<br />560 acres. The effects of subsiden
<br /> would be;w't (r1i70 feet-of. tld
<br />Bruce Pa It and within 750 feeG
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<br />of the Terror Creek Reservoir. In PR
<br /> 11 and in a previous permit revision
<br />I, Randal Sunderland, do solemnly swear that I am publisher of the (
<br />, BRL provided
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<br />Delta County Independent, that the same is a weekly newspaper print- , d
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<br />lionsons, designs and a subsidence arid)
<br />seismic monitoring program in sup1?
<br />ed, in whole or in part, and published in the County of Delta, State of port of their mine plan change. Th
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<br />Colorado, continuously and uninterruptedly in said County of Delta revi
<br />ed mine plan is needed due t'
<br />difficult mining conditions.
<br />for a period of more than fifty-two consecutive weeks sins to the first
<br />I? The proposed mine plan change 14
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<br />publication of the annexed legal notice or advertisement; that said PR-11 is associated with surface landi
<br />that are owned or managed by BRL:
<br />newspaper has been admitted to the United States mails as second- the Bureau of Land Management;
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<br />class matter under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1879, and all (BLM) and the USDA-Forest Service?
<br />The coal is managed by the BLMV
<br />amendments thereof, and that said newspaper is a weekly newspaper a er
<br />y P p The USDA-Forest Service consentel
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<br />duly qualified for publishing legal notices and advertisements within to the approval of PR-11 with the'
<br />understanding that the Division deci4
<br />the meaning of the laws of the State of Colorado; that the annexed legal
<br />sion includes protections for non
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<br />notice or advertisment was published in the regular and entire issue two m
<br />neral resources brought forward
<br />by the Grand Mesa-Uncompahgre
<br />consecutive insertions; that the first publication of said notice was in Gunnison National Forest as the laq
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<br />the issue of said newspaper dated December 24th, A.D., 2008, management agency.
<br />The Bowie No. 2 Mine is located it
<br />and that the last publication of said notice was in the issue of Delta County, approximately 5 mile
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<br />said newspaper dated December 31st, A.D., 2008. nor
<br />east of Paonia, Colorado. Thq
<br />underground operation has an anticil
<br /> pated maximum production capacity','
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<br />In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this of 6 million tons per year. Coal inter:
<br />est is Federal and private, and the
<br />31st day of December, A.D., 2008. surface to be affected is Federal and
<br /> private land. The permit area encom
<br /> passes approximately 5,865 acres.
<br /> This proposed decision is based 01
<br /> a finding that the proposed operations
<br /> will comply,with all requirements of
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<br /> Copies of the proposed decision)
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<br />General manager including any stipulations, are on file'
<br />for public inspection at the Colorado(
<br />of said Division of Reclamation, Minim;
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<br />Delta County Independent. and Safety, Room 215, Centenniak,
<br />Building, 1313 Sherman Street;
<br /> Denver, Colorado 80203, at the Delta;
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<br />Subscribed and sworn before me, a Notary County Clerk' and -Recorders Officer
<br />501 Palmer, Delta, Colorado 81416:
<br />Public in and for the 31st day of December, A.D. and at the Paonia Public Library, 1402
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<br />2008. Grand Avenue, Paonia, CO 81428"
<br />Persons with an interest that may.
<br /> be adversely affected by the pro4
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<br />_ ? UtLtl? - Posed decision may request a fort'
<br />mal hearing before the Mined Lana
<br />Reclamation Boa
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<br />Notary Public r
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<br />e proposedt
<br />decision. Such request must beed?
<br />made within thirty (30) days of that
<br />initial
<br />ublicatio
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<br />be in writing, and must state wfth
<br />900 Cypress Wood Lane, Delta, CO 81416 reasonable specificity the reasons fort
<br />the request and the objections to the
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<br />proposed decision. 4
<br /> Published in the Delta County.!
<br /> Independent December 24 and 31-j'
<br /> 2008.
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