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Public Notice <br />Mountain Coal Company, L.L.C. (MCC), P.O. Box 591, Somerset, CO 81434, (970) <br />929-5015, has fled a complete application for Technical Revision No. TR-117 to <br />MCC's Mining and Reclamation Permit No. C-80-007 with the Colorado Mined <br />Land Reclamation Board (Board), under the provisions of the Colorado Surface <br />Coal Mining Reclamation Act of 1979. The permit was originally issued by the <br />Board in July 1981, and subsequently renewed in August 1986, January 1993, <br />(Effective August 1991), July 1996, July 2001, and February 13, 2007. The current <br />five-year permit term expires February 13, 2012. The West Elk Mine five-year <br />permit area contains lands in Sections 9-11, 13-36, T13S, R90W, 6th PM; and <br />Sections 23-26, T13S, R91W, 6th PM, and Sections 1-5, 8-12, T14S, R90W, 6th PM in <br />Delta and Gunnison Counties. The location of the lands can be found on the USGS <br />7.5 minute Somerset and Minnesota Pass Quadrangle Topographic Maps. The <br />current permit area encompasses approximately 17,154.9 acres. <br />The technical revision is to update MCC's permit document in response to the <br />statutory mid-term review (MT-6) comments made by CDRMS on MCC's Permit <br />No. C-80-007. The revision addresses updates to reclamation cost estimates, as well <br />as general updates and corrections to the permit text, tables, exhibits and maps. <br />This technical revision will not result in any increase in coal production above <br />currently permitted levels. This technical revision would not result in any new or <br />increase of permitted disturbed areas. <br />Copies of the technical revision application are available for review at the Colorado <br />Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety (CDRMS) Office, Centennial Building, <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215, Denver, Colorado, 80203, phone (303) 866-3567, <br />and the Gunnison County Clerk and Recorders Office, 221 N. Wisconsin, Suite D, <br />Gunnison, CO 81230. Comments or objections concerning the revision application <br />should be directed to the CDRMS at the above address not later than 10 days after <br />the date of publication of this notice in order to be considered.