2009-10-05_REVISION - C1980007

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 10/5/2009
• Doc Name: Proof of Publication
• From: Delta County Independent
• To: DRMS
• Type & Sequence: TR119
• Email Name: TAK
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Delta County
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401 Meeker St.
P.O. Box 809 'o
Delta, CO 81416 -'•:F t°t'

AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
STATE OF COLORADO

SS NOTICE Olt PROPOSED
COUNTY OF DELTA
' pecloN
The Colorado" Division of
Reclamation, Mini rig and Safety pro-
poses to:Approve Technical Revision
Application N6.119 (TR-119);forthe

1, Randal Sunderland, do solemnly swear that I am managing West Elk Mine (P& *.NO. t:1689_
007), ,"submitted by Mountain Coal

editor of the Delta County Independent; that the same is a weekly Oro-
uses to u_c. The operator e
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newspaper printed, in whole or in part, and published in the County n
poses to construct a new sediment
rd in the 'main surface
control
of Delta, State of Colorado, continuously and uninterruptedly in O
facilities area of the mine and make"
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said County of Delta for a period of more than fifty-two consecu- anges,to'water handling
various c
and sediment corttrol structures. 'The
tive weeks prior to the first publication of the annexed legal notice new construction wiill be on previ-

or advertisement; that said newspaper has been admitted to the ously disturbed privately-owhedland.
The'WeO Elk Mine is ail underground
United States mails as second-class matter under the provisions coal mme located in' Gunnison
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of the Act of March 3, 1879, and all amendments thereof, and that appronmately 9 (rules east
county,
of Peon colorado. Coat interest
said newspaper is a weekly newspaper duly qualified for publish- is Federal and private; and'the sur-

ing legal notices and advertisements within the meaning of the laws face affected is Federal and private
land. "The permit area `encompasses
of the State of Colorado; that the annexed legal notice or adver- approzimateiy,17,154.90 acres. .

tisement was published in the regular and entire issue of every This proposed decision is based on
a finding that the proposed operation
number of said weekly newspaper for the period of one con- will coiripty;with' elf rrequiremems of
secutive: insertion; that the first publication of said notice was in the Colorado surface coal mining
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the issue of said newspaper dated September 30th, A.D., 2009, -101,
.Reclamation
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ct(on 34-
3
et seq., 'C.R:S:, and the regulations

and that the last publication of said notice was in the issue of promulgated thereunder.
Copies of the proposed decision,
said newspaper dated September 30th, A.D., 2009. including stipulations are, 6n file-for
public inspection at the Colorado

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this Division' of Reclamation, Mining
` and Safety, Room 215 Centennial
30th day of September, A.D., 2009. Building, 13t3 Sherman -Street,
Denver, Colorado 80203. 'Persons
with an interest that m8y be adverse-
affected the' proposed decision
may request t a format hearing before
the-Mined Land Reclamation Board
General manager of said on the proposed decision. Such

Delta County Independent. request. must be made within ten
(10) days of the initial publication of
this 'notice, :must be in writing, and

Subscribed and sworn before me, a Notary must state with reasonable specificity
the reasorls for the request and the
Public in and for the County of Delta, objections to the proposed decision.

State of Colorado, this 30th day of September Published in the Delta County
Independent September 30, 2009.
A.D., 2009. --
Notary Public
My commission expires 12/24/2009
900 Cypress Wood Lane, Delta, CO 81416