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PUBLIC NOTICE <br />Seneca Coal Company, 37796 Routt Counts Road 53, P.O. Box 670, Hayden, Colorado 81639, has <br />filed with the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety, an application for Permit <br />Revision (No.02) to the Seneca II Kline, Permit C-80 -005, This revision presents a reduction in size <br />of the Seneca II permit boundary. SCC proposes to reduce the size of the original Seneca II permit <br />area to accommodate the new Peabody Sage Creek line (PSC1%4) permit area. The PSCM permit <br />area will include approximately 3,011.9 acres of the original Seneca II permit area. The revised <br />Seneca II permit area urill retain 386.5 acres of the original permit area that includes 271.0 disturbed <br />acres. This new Seneca II Mine permit boundary encompasses one isolated watershed and separates <br />runoff from the Seneca II Mine and the new PSCM permit area. The watershed discharges to Pond <br />008, which is an approved NPDES discharge point. A reduction in the amount of bond is proposed <br />for the smaller Seneca II permit area, to reflect the reduced reclamation liability. <br />The general legal description of the "current" Seneca II Mine Permit Area is described as: <br />T5N_ R87W <br />Section 1: <br />All <br />Section 2 <br />All <br />Section 3: <br />Portions of E /2E/2 <br />Section 11: <br />NE /4, N /2NW /4, SE /4NW /4, and NE /4SE /4 and Portions of <br />SE /4SE /4 and NW /4SE /4 <br />Section 12: <br />All <br />Section 13: <br />N /2N/2N/2 <br />T6N_R87W <br />Section 27: Portions of SE /4SW /4, SW /4SW /4, SW /4SE /4 and SE /4SE /4 <br />Section 34: E /2E/2, NW /4NE /4 and Portions of NE /4NW /4, and SW /4 NE /4 <br />Section 35: W /2, W /2E/2, and Portions of SE /4NE /4 and E/2 SE /4 <br />Section 36: Portions of S/2S/21 <br />T5N, R86y ' <br />Section 6: W /2W /2SW /4 <br />Section 7: W /2NW /4NW /4, N /2SW /4NW /4 <br />All west of the 6th Principal Meridian; totaling 3,457 acres. <br />Legal owners of record of the surface of the permit area are: <br />Colorado, State of (Board of Land Commissioners) <br />Pacificorp <br />Sage Creek Holdings LLC <br />Xcel Energy <br />Zuhan, Donald and Beverly <br />The general legal description of the "revised" Seneca II Mine Permit Area is described as: <br />T5N, R87W <br />Section 1: SE /4, Portions of NE /4NE /4SW /4 and S /2NE /4 <br />Section 12: Portions of NE /4 and E /2NW /4 <br />T5N, R86W <br />Section 6: W /2W /2SW /4 <br />Section 7: W/2NW /4Ny1' /4, N /2S\X' /4NW /4 <br />All west of the 6th Principal Meridian; totaling 3865 acres. <br />