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STATE OF COLORADO <br />DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman St., Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone: (303) 866-3567 <br />FAX: (303) 832-8106 <br />11 February 2010 <br />Ross Gubka, P.E. <br />Western Fuels-Colorado, LLC <br />P.O. Box 628 <br />Nucla, CO 81424 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Bill Ritter, Jr. <br /> Governor <br />Ben Lanenfeld Hands D. Sherman <br />g Executive Director <br />Greg Lewicki & Associates <br /> Ronald W. C <br />t <br /> <br />11541 Warrington Court or <br />c <br />Division Director <br />Parker, CO 80138 Natural Resource Trustee <br />Re: New Horizon Mine - Permit No. C-1981-008 <br />Permit Revision No. 6 (PR-06) <br />Transmittal of Objection/Comment Letters Received (#6) <br />Dear Mr. Gubka and Mr. Langenfeld: <br />The Division has received one additional comment and objection letter to PR-06. A copy <br />of the letter attached for your reference is as follows: <br />• JoEllen Turner and Mike Morgan Rec'd. 27-Jan-2010 <br />Section 2.07.3(5) states, "Any person having an interest which is or may be adversely <br />affected by a decision of the Division regarding the proposed surface coal mining <br />operation... shall have the right to submit written objections to or comments upon the <br />initial or revised application for a... permit revision... to the Division within 30 days <br />after the last publication of the... notice. Such objections and comments shall <br />immediately be transmitted to the applicant by the Division and shall be made available <br />to the public, at the same locations as the application." <br />A fifth (and unnecessary) publication of the notice (in the San Miguel Basin Forum) <br />occurred on Thursday, 31 December 2009. Therefore, the public comment period <br />remained open through Monday, 01 February 2010. This transmittal represents the <br />final comment and objection letter that was received within the public comment <br />period. In accordance with the Section quoted above, please make a copy of this <br />letter available at the Nucla Annex for public review. <br />Sincerely, <br />Marcia L. Talvitie, P.E. <br />Environmental Protection Specialist <br />Enclosure - (1) <br />cc: Sandy Brown, DRMS (w/o enclosures) <br />COLORADO <br />O l V I S 1 0 N O F <br />RECLAMATION <br />MINING <br />SAFETY <br />Office of Office of <br />Mined Land Reclamation Denver • Grand Junction • Durango Active and Inactive Mines