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Public Notice <br />Mountain Coal Company, L.L.C. (MCC), P.O. Box 591, Somerset, CO 81434, <br />(970) 929-5015, has filed a complete application for Technical Revision No. TR-121 <br />to MCC's Mining and Reclamation Permit No. C-80-007 with the Colorado Mined <br />Land Reclamation Board (Board), under the provisions of the Colorado Surface <br />Coal Mining Reclamation Act of 1979. The permit was originally issued by the <br />Board in July 1981, and subsequently renewed in August 1986, January 1993, <br />(Effective August 1991), July 1996, July 2001, and February 13, 2007. The <br />current five-year permit term expires February 13, 2012. The West Elk Mine five- <br />year permit area contains lands in Sections 9-11, 13-36, T13S, R90W, 6ht PM; and <br />Sections 23-26, T13S, R91W, 6' PM, and Sections 1-5, 8-12, T14S, R90W, 6`n PM <br />in Delta and Gunnison Counties. The location of the lands can be found on the <br />USGS 7.5 minute Somerset and Minnesota Pass Quadrangle Topographic Maps. <br />The current permit area encompasses approximately 17,154.9 acres. <br />This Technical Revision is to temporarily reopen about 0.7 miles of an existing <br />decommissioned road and construct about 0.25 miles of new temporary road to <br />access methane drainage well (MDW) sites just beyond an inventoried roadless <br />boundary (approved per PR-14). Four MDW sites will be relocated and <br />incorporated into the re-opened road corridor rather than building additional <br />roads and pad locations to the north. This technical revision will not result in any <br />increase in coal production above currently permitted levels. <br />Copies of the technical revision application are available for review at the Colorado <br />Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety (CDRMS) office, Centennial <br />Building, 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215, Denver, Colorado, 80203, phone (303) <br />866-3567, and the Gunnison County Planning Office, 221 N. Wisconsin, Suite D, <br />Gunnison, CO 81230. Comments or objections concerning the revision application <br />should be directed to the CDRMS at the above address not later than 10 days after <br />the date of publication of this notice in order to be considered.