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<br />Delta County
<br />ndependent
<br />401 Meeker St. ?Py Y?
<br />P.O. Box 809 ail' S
<br />Delta, CO 81416
<br />AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
<br />NOTICE OF PROPOSED
<br />STATE OF COLORADO DECISION
<br />The Colorado Division of Reclamation,
<br />SS. Mining and Safety proposes to Approve
<br />COUNTY OF DELTA Technical Revision Application No. 68
<br />(TR-68) for the Elk Creek Mine (Permit
<br />No. C-1981-022), submitted by Oxbow
<br />Mining,:LLC. With this technical revi-
<br />I, Randal Sunderland, do solemnly swear that I am managing sion, Oxbow Mining, LLC proposes to
<br />editor of the Delta County Independent; that the same is a weekly expand theapparPIl CreekMingPan'
<br />beneh-by-approximatety 0.1 acres to
<br />newspaper printed, in whole or in part, and published in the County facilitate completion of a 210' deep, '
<br />of Delta, State of Colorado, continuously and uninterruptedly in 18" steel cased methane drainage
<br />borehole and construction of a twin
<br />said County of Delta for a period of more than fifty-two consecu- electric driven methane exhauster
<br />tive weeks prior to the first publication of the annexed legal notice system. The operator has requested
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<br />or advertisement; that said newspaper has been admitted to the no new disturbed acreage with this
<br />revision application.
<br />United States mails as second-class matter under the provisions The Elk Creek Mine is an under-
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<br />of the Act of March 3, 1879, and all amendments thereof, and that ground coal mine located in Delta
<br />county, approximately 0 miles north of
<br />said newspaper is a weekly newspaper duly qualified for publish- Somerset, Colorado. Coal interest is
<br />
<br />ing legal notices and advertisements within the meaning of the laws Federal and private, and the surface
<br />affected is Federal, state and private
<br />of the State of Colorado; that the annexed legal notice or adver- land. The permit area encompasses
<br />
<br />tisement was published in the regular and entire issue of every approximately 13,429.08 acres.
<br />This proposed decision is based on
<br />number of said weekly newspaper for the period of one con- a finding that the proposed operation
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<br />secutive insertion; that the first publication of said notice was in will comply with all requirements of
<br />the Colorado Surface Coal Mining
<br />the issue of said newspaper dated May 5th, A.D., 2010, and Reclamation Act, Section 34-33-101,
<br />that the last publication of said notice was in the issue of at seq., ,and the regulations
<br />promulgated ed th thereunder.
<br />said newspaper dated May 5th, A.D., 2010. Copies of the proposed decision,
<br /> including stipulations, are on file for
<br /> public inspection at the Colorado
<br />In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this Division of Reclamation, Mining
<br />5th day of May, A.D., 2010.
<br />y y, and Safety, Room 215, Centennial
<br />Building, 1313 Sherman Street,
<br /> Denver, Colorado 80203. Persons
<br /> with an interest that may be adversely
<br /> affected by the proposed decision may
<br /> request a formal hearing before the
<br />q Mined Land Reclamation Board on
<br />a,16za the proposed degision. Such request
<br />General manager of said Delta County Independent
<br />? must be made within ten (1.0) days
<br />of the jnitiel,,lublication of this notice,
<br /> Lnust be;in venting; and must'tate with
<br />Subscribed and sworn before me, a Notary in and for reasonable specificity the reasons for
<br />the request and the objections to the
<br />the County of Delta, State of Colorado, this 5th day of May A.D., proposed decision.
<br />2010 Published in the Delta County
<br />. Independent May 5, 2010.
<br />Notary Public ,? •G\P S UNO
<br />My commission expires 12/24/2013
<br />900 Cypress Wood Lane : a ; NOT'4Ry . t?Z
<br />Delta, CO 81416
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