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<br />Delta County
<br />ndependent
<br />401 Meeker St.
<br />P.O. Box 809
<br />Delta, CO 81416
<br />AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
<br /> Paonia, CO, and at the offices of
<br />PUBLIC NOTICE the Division of Reclamation, Mining
<br />Bowie Resources, LLC, P.O. Box & Safety, 1313 Sherman St., Room
<br />483, Paonia, CO, 81428, has Denver, CO, 80203, (303) B66-
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<br />submitted a complete application for ,
<br />3567. Written comments regarding
<br />a technical revision to the Division this application may be submitted
<br />of Reclamation, Mining & Safety to and additional information may
<br />for its approved Bowie No. 2 Mine, be obtained from the Division of
<br />mining permit no: C-1996-083. The Reclamation Mining & Safety at the
<br />proposed revision will amend the above address. Written comments
<br />mining plan. Main entries are to be must be received by the Division
<br />constructed under Terror Creek. The of Reclamation, Mining & Safety
<br />main entries will provide necessary within 10 days after the date of this
<br />access to develop and mine longwall publication in order to be considered.
<br />panels to the west of Terror Creek. Published in the Delta County
<br />The main entries are designed to Independent December 16, 2009.
<br />prevent subsidence where they pass _
<br />under Terror Creek and where they
<br />pass under the Western Area Power
<br />Administration transmission line.
<br />there are transmission line towers
<br />north and south of the main entries
<br />but there is not a transmission line
<br />tower above the main entries. A new
<br />room mining area is also proposed
<br />adjacent to the North Mains. BRL also
<br />proposes to drill a. geotechnical hole
<br />to determine rock characteristics and
<br />water inflow locations at a potential
<br />ventilation shaft site located west of
<br />Terror Creek.
<br />Most of the mine facilities are located
<br />north of Bowie Road near the town
<br />of Bowie,-CO. A pumps- ation, three --
<br />sediment ponds, a coal mine waste
<br />disposal area and unit train loadout
<br />.are located south of Bowie Road. The
<br />Fire Mountain Canal is located south
<br />of the mine facilities and north of the
<br />unit train loadout. The North Fork of
<br />the Gunnison River is located south
<br />of the mine permit boundary. The
<br />proposed mine permit area is located
<br />on the U.S. Geological Survey 7.5
<br />minute Bowie Quadrangle map within
<br />the following sections.
<br />Township 13 South Range 91 West
<br />6th PM
<br />Sec. 2: SW1/4NW1/4, SW1/4
<br />Sec. 3: ALL
<br />Sec. 4: ALL
<br />Sec. 5: S1/2SE1/4, SE1/4SW1/4,
<br />S1/2NE1/4NE1/4SE1/4,
<br />SE1/4NW 1/4NE1/4SE1/4,
<br />E1/2SW 1/4NE1/4SE1/4,
<br />SE1/4NE1/4SE1/4
<br />Sec. 8: NE1/4
<br />Sec. 9: NE1/4, NW1/4, SE1/4,
<br />NE1/2SW1/4, SEt/4
<br />SW1/4, NE1/4
<br />SW1/4SW1/4
<br />Sec. 10: ALL
<br />Sec. 11: SWIM, NW1/4
<br />Sec. 14: NW1/4 except that
<br />portion south of the Union
<br />Pacific Railroad right of
<br />way
<br />Sec. 15: NE1/4, NW1/4,
<br />NWt/4SE1/4', Portions
<br />of the N1/2SE1A
<br />SW1MSE1/4,S1%2SW1/4,
<br />STATE OF COLORADO
<br />SS.
<br />COUNTY OF DELTA
<br />I, Randal Sunderland, do solemnly swear that I am managing
<br />editor of the Delta County Independent; that the same is a weekly
<br />newspaper printed, in whole or in part, and published in the County
<br />of Delta, State of Colorado, continuously and uninterruptedly in
<br />said County of Delta for a period of more than fifty-two consecu-
<br />tive weeks prior to the first publication of the annexed legal notice
<br />or advertisement; that said newspaper has been admitted to the
<br />United States mails as second-class matter under the provisions
<br />of the Act of March 3, 1879, and all amendments thereof, and that
<br />said newspaper is a weekly newspaper duly qualified for publish-
<br />ing legal notices and advertisements within the meaning of the laws
<br />of the State of Colorado; that the annexed legal notice or adver-
<br />tisement was published in the regular and entire issue of every
<br />number of said weekly newspaper for the period of one con-
<br />secutive insertion; that the first publication of said notice was in
<br />the issue of said newspaper dated December 16th, A.D., 2009,
<br />and that the last publication of said notice was in the issue of
<br />said newspaper dated December 16th, A.D., 2009.
<br />In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this
<br />16th day of December, A.D., 2009.
<br />General manager of said
<br />Delta County Independent.
<br />Subscribed and sworn before me, a Notary
<br />Public in and for the County of Delta,
<br />State of Colorado, this 16th day of December
<br />A.D., 2009.
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<br />on expires 12/24/2013
<br />Wood Lane, Delta, CO 81416
<br />excluding all privately
<br />held lands not owned or
<br />controlled by Bowie'
<br />Resources Limited or the
<br />Union Pacific Railroad.
<br />Sec. 16: N1/2NE1/4
<br />Sec. 22: Portion of NW1/4NW1/4,
<br />on lands owned by the
<br />Union Pacific Railroad
<br />Township 12 South Range 91 West.
<br />6th
<br />Sec. 27: SW1/4, S1/2SE1/4, S1/2
<br />NE1/4SE1/4; St/2
<br />NW1/4SE1/4
<br />Sec. 28: E11/2 SE1/4
<br />Sec. 33: Lots 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10,
<br />r11, 12, 14, 15, 16, SE114
<br />NW1/4, S1W2NE1/4,
<br />NE1/4NE1/4
<br />Sec. 34: ALL
<br />Sec. 35: SW/4 Lot 18, NW/4
<br />Lot 19
<br />North of Deer Trail Ditch
<br />The Bowie No. 2 Mine permit contains
<br />x,865 acres of land, 2,612 acres of
<br />private surface and 3,253 acres of
<br />Federal surface. Private minerals
<br />,within the proposed permit area
<br />encompass 1,957 acres with Federal
<br />minerals accounting for the balance
<br />of 3,908 acres.
<br />A copy of the proposed revision is
<br />available, for public inspection at the
<br />Paonia Public Libraty„2. Third Street,
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