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140 PUBLIC NOTICE
<br />Seneca Coal Company LLC, 37796 Routt County Road 53, P.O. Box 670, Hayden, Colorado 81639, is
<br />requesting release of Phase I bond liability on 1,152.6 reclaimed acres of its total 4,093.0 acres currently
<br />within the permit boundary at the Seneca II-W Mine (CDRMS Permit No. G82-057, approved December 31,
<br />1985). A surety bond in the amount of $11,117,348 is currently in place of which $4,864,928 are being
<br />requested for release.
<br />The Seneca II-W Mine is located approximately seven (7) miles south of the Town of Hayden, Colorado off
<br />of RCR # 53. The specific area to which this bond release request applies is included within the Permit Area
<br />located as follows:
<br /> TSN- R88W Mine Area
<br /> Section 9:
<br />Section 10: Portions of SE/4NE/4, NE'/4SE A, and W'/2NE'/4
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<br />Section 11: S
<br />/ZS'/ZNWY4, SW'/4, SE'/4, Portions of S'/2NE'/4
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<br />Section 14: Portions of S'/2S'/2SW'/4
<br /> Portions of SW A, NW1/4
<br />and S'/2S'/2SE'/
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<br />Section 15: ,
<br />4
<br />All
<br /> Section 16:
<br />Section 21 Portions of W'/2NW'/4, SE'/4NW'/4, NE'/4SW'/4
<br />and SE'/4
<br /> : ,
<br />Portions of E'/2NE'/4
<br /> Section 22:
<br />Section 23: NWA, NE/4, N'/2SE'/4 , SW'/4SE'/4, Portions of NY2SW'/4, and SW'/4SE'/4
<br />NW'/
<br />SW A
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<br />1
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<br />Section 26: 4,
<br />, W
<br />/2E
<br />/2, and W'/2E'/2E1/2
<br />W1/2, W1/20/2, and Portions of W'/2E'/
<br />NE'/
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<br />1
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<br />Section 27:
<br />Section 34: 2
<br />4 and W
<br />/2E
<br />/2SE1/4
<br />E'/2
<br />NE1/4
<br />N'/2SE'/4
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<br />d P
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<br />Section 35: ,
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<br />n
<br />ort
<br />ons of N /2S'/2SE'/4
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<br /> NW
<br />/4, W'/2NE'A, N'/2SW /4 and Portions of N'/2S'/2SW'/4
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<br />NW'/ASE'/4, NW'/4SW'/4SE'/4, NW'/4NE'/4SE'/4, and W/2E'/2NE'/4
<br /> T6N. R88W Tie Across Haul Road
<br /> Section 14: Portions of SE/4
<br />SW'/4
<br /> Section 23: ,
<br />Portions of N1/2
<br /> Section 24: Portions of NE'A
<br />NW A
<br /> T6N. R87W ,
<br /> Section 17: Portions of SW A
<br />SE'/4
<br />NE'A
<br /> Section 18: ,
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<br />Portions of SEA
<br /> Section 19: Portions of N/2
<br /> All went of the 6th Principal Meridian; totaling 4,093 aarr.
<br />The USGS 7.5 Minute Quadrangle Maps of Hayden Gulch, Hayden, Dunckley, and Mt. Harris, contain the
<br />described permit area.
<br />Pursuant to Rule 3.03.1, a permittee may request Phase I Bond release upon successful completion of
<br />backfilling, regrading and drainage control in accordance with the approved reclamation plan. Those portions
<br />of the mine for which Phase I bond release is requested were backfilled and graded from the beginning of
<br />mining, in 1990, through 2008 in accordance with the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety
<br />(CDRMS) rules and regulations. The approved reclamation plan can be reviewed in its entirety in the Seneca
<br />II-W Mine Permit Application Package located in the Hayden Public Library, Hayden, Colorado.
<br />For the purposes of this Phase I Bond Release request, the term "reclaimed" means those disturbed/mined
<br />areas where successful completion of backftlling, regrading and drainage control, in accordance with the
<br />approved reclamation plan, has been completed.
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