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Publisher's Affidavit and Proof of Publication
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<br />409 AIIG 0 2009
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<br />592 Main Street, Suite 6 • Meeker, Colorado 81A14ft??°",
<br />Phone (970)878-4017 • FAX.(970)878-4016
<br />STATE OF COLORADO
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<br />COUNTY OF RIO BLANCO
<br />I, JEFF BURKHEAD, do solemnly swear that I am the
<br />NOTICE OF PROPOSED DECISION editor acting on behalf of Mitch Bettis, owner/publisher
<br />The Oolowado, Division of Reclamation, of the Rio Blanco Herald Times, formerly known as The
<br />Mmi'ng and Safety proposes to Approve ' Meeker Herald and The Rangely Times weekly
<br />?;P.ermit RenewalApplication No. 5w(RN-5), -'
<br />submitted by' Blue Mountain Energy Inc newspapers; that the same is a weekly newspaper
<br />for 'a ? coal mining permit, at the Deserado published in the County of Rio Blanco, State of Colorado,
<br />Mine iPerinlt No.,'C=1981=018). The pro and has a general circulation therein; that said
<br />posed renewal will allow -for,contmued newspaper has been published continuously and
<br />mining and/or reclamation operations.
<br />The D ,serad6 Mine is',, located in Rio, : uninterruptedly in said County of Rio Blanco for a period
<br />Blanco County, approximately 7 miles of more than fifty-two consecutive weeks next prior to the
<br />northeast of Rangely Colorado. Coal in- first publication of the annexed legal notice or
<br />terest at this underground mine is Feder- advertisement; that said newspaper has been admitted to
<br />al,- and the surface to, be affected is Fed the United States mails as second-class matter under the
<br />eral and private land. The permit area en
<br />compasses approximately 11,788.71 acr- provision of the Act of March 3, 1879, or any
<br />amendments thereof; and that said newspaper is a weekly
<br />es.
<br />This proposed decision is based on a newspaper duly qualified for publishing legal notices and
<br />finding that ,the proposed operation will ' advertisements within the meaning of the laws of the
<br />comply with all requirements of the Col- - State of Colorado.
<br />orado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation That the annexed legal notice or advertisement was
<br />Act, Section 34-33-101 _ ei seq., C.R.S.,
<br />and the regulations promulgated thereun- published in the regular and entire issue of every number
<br />der. of said weekly newspaper for the period of
<br />A copy of the "Proposed Decision and consecutive insertions; and that the first publication of
<br />Findings of Compliance", including any said notice was in the issue of said newspaper dated
<br />stipulations, is on file for public inspec- i
<br />tin ; at the Colorado Division of ; Reclama114? A.D. 200, and that the last
<br />tip on, Mining and Safety, Room 215 Cen publication of said' notice was in the issue of said
<br />tennial> Building, 1,313 Sherman Street, newspaper dated,,tid`A.D.20061.
<br />Denver; Colorado 80203, and at the Rio In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this
<br />Blanco County Clerk's Office, . PO Box I,
<br />80, _ day of A+ A.D. 2008.
<br />Meeker, CO 81641. Persons with an inter- /
<br />est that may` be adversely' affected by the
<br />proposed decision may request a formal
<br />hearing , before the Mined Land Reclama-
<br />tion Board on the proposed decision. ;
<br />Such request must be. made within thirty Jeff Burkhead, editor acting on behalf
<br />(30) 'days of the initial publication of this
<br />notice', must be in writing, and must of Mitch Bettis, owner/publisher
<br />state with, reasonable specificity the rea-
<br />sons for the request and . the objections to
<br />the proposed decision.
<br />Publish: June 25 and July 2, 2009 Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notary public in
<br />Rio Blanco Herald Times and for the County of Rio Blanco, State of Colorado, this
<br />day of OW V&jt A., D. 200.
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<br />My commission expires
<br />O CT 16 2012
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