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<br /> Delta County
<br /> 1 NOTICE OF PROPOSED L ZO?g
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<br />401 Meeker St. by Mountain Coal Company, LLC.
<br /> Technical Revision 17 updates and
<br />P.O. Box 809 revises information in the permit appli-
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<br />Delta, CO 81416 cation, in response to the Division's
<br />Midterm Permit Review 6. Proposed
<br /> updates and revisions include: a new
<br /> table summarizing the Inventory of
<br /> Structures and Renewable Resources,
<br /> an updated table of topsoil stockpiles,
<br /> removal of a permit stipulation regard-
<br />AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION ing hydrologic reporting that duplicates
<br /> reporting requirements specified in the
<br /> permit text, and changing the submit-
<br /> tal due date for the annual hydrology
<br /> report from April 30 to June 30 each
<br /> year. The only change to the opera-
<br />STATE OF COLORADO tion plan is elimination of a previously
<br /> approved vent shaft project that is
<br /> SS no longer planned for construction.
<br />COUNTY OF DELTA . The reclamat& eosbestimate for the
<br /> Revision, resulting in a reduction of
<br /> $1,599,429. The updated total for the
<br /> estimate is $13,842,855. This reduc-
<br /> tion resulted mainly from reduced unit
<br />I, Randal Sunderland, do solemnly swear that I am managing costs in reclamation tasks, changes in
<br />editor of the Delta County Independent, that the same is a weekly equipment selection for reclamation,
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<br />newspaper printed, in whole or in part, and published in the County and elimination of reclamation tasks
<br />for, projects no longer planned.
<br />of Delta, State of Colorado, continuously and uninterruptedly in The West Elk Mine is an underground
<br />said County of Delta for a period of more than fifty-two consecu- coal mine located in Gunnison County,
<br /> approximately 9 miles east of Paonia,
<br />tive weeks prior to the first publication of the annexed legal notice Colorado. Coal interest is Federal
<br />or advertisement; that said newspaper has been admitted to the and private, and the surface affected.
<br /> is Federal and private. land. The per-
<br />United States mails as second-class matter under the provisions mil area encompasses approximately
<br />of the Act of March 3, 1879, and all amendments thereof, and that 17,154.90 acres.
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<br />said newspaper is a weekly newspaper duly qualified for publish- This proposed decision is based on
<br />a finding that the proposed operation
<br />ing legal notices and advertisements within the meaning of the laws will comply with all requirements of
<br />
<br />of the State of Colorado; that the annexed legal notice or adver- the Colorado Surface Coal Mining
<br />Reclamation Act, Section 34-33-101,
<br />tisement was published in the regular and entire issue of every at seq., C.R.S., and the regulations
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<br />number of said weekly newspaper for the period of one con- promulgated thereunder.
<br />Copies of the proposed decision,
<br />secutive insertion; that the first publication of said notice was in including stipulations, are on file for
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<br />the issue of said newspaper dated June 17th, A.D., 2009, and public inspection at the Colorado
<br />Division of Reclamation, Mining
<br />that the last publication of said notice was in the issue of and Safety, Room 215, Centennial
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<br />said newspaper dated June 17th, A.D., 2009. Building, 1313 Sherman Street,
<br />Denver, Colorado 80203. Persons
<br /> with an interest that may be adversely
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<br />In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this affected by the proposed decision may
<br />request a formal hearing before the
<br />17th day of June, A.D., 2009. Mined Land Reclamation Board on
<br /> the proposed decision.. Such request
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<br />'%fif0t4 ial ion iN46lip6j_
<br />?yt must be in writing, an mus state with
<br />reasonable specificity the reasons for
<br />General manager of said the request and the objections to the
<br />Delta County Independent. proposed decision.
<br />Published in the Delta County
<br />Independent June 17, 2009.
<br />Subscribed and sworn before me, a Notary
<br />Public in and for the County of Delta,
<br />State of Colorado, this 17th day of June A.D.,
<br />2009.
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<br />otary Public
<br />My commission expires 12/24/2009
<br />900 Cypress Wood Lane, Delta, CO 81416
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