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<br />Independent JUN 3 0 ft01 °
<br />401 Meeker St.
<br />P.O. Box 809
<br />Delta, CO 81416
<br />AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
<br />STATE OF COLORADO I NOTICE OF PROPOSED
<br /> DECISION
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<br />SS The Colorado Division of Reclamation,
<br />COUNTY OF DELTA Mining and Safety proposes to
<br /> Approve Technical Revision
<br /> Application No. 65 JR-65) for the Elk
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<br />I, Randal Sunderland, do solemnly swear that I am managing Creek Mine (Permit No. C-1981-022),
<br />submitted by oxbow Mining, LLC.
<br />editor of the Delta County Independent; that the same is a weekly This Technical Revision provides for
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<br />newspaper printed, in whole or in part, and published in the County the addition of as many as thirty-three
<br />gob vent boreholes at the Elk Creek
<br />of Delta, State of Colorado, continuously and uninterruptedly in Mine. Twenty-seven drill pads and
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<br />said County of Delta for a period of more than fifty-two consecu- associated temporary, light use roads
<br />will be installed; the boreholes will be
<br />tive weeks prior to the first publication of the annexed legal notice fitted with pumps for mine ventilation,
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<br />or advertisement; that said newspaper has been admitted to the and eventually reclaimed.
<br />The Elk Creek Mine is an underground
<br />United States mails as second-class matter under the provisions coal mine located in Delta County,
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<br />of the Act of March 3, 1879, and all amendments thereof, and that just north of Somerset, Colorado.
<br />Coal interest is Federal and private,
<br />said newspaper is a weekly newspaper duly qualified for publish- and the surface affected is Federal,
<br />ing legal notices and advertisements within the meaning of the laws state and private land. The permy
<br />area encompasses approximate)
<br />of the State of Colorado; that the annexed legal notice or adver- 13,429.08 acres.
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<br />tisement was published in the regular and entire issue of every This proposed decision is based on
<br />a finding that the proposed operation
<br />number of said weekly newspaper for the period of one con- will comply with all requirements of
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<br />secutive insertion; that the first publication of said notice was in the Colorado Surface Coal Mining
<br />Reclamation Act, Section 34-33-101,
<br />the issue of said newspaper dated June 23rd, A.D., 2010, and at seq., C.R.S., and the regulations
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<br />that the last publication of said notice was in the issue of promulgated thereunder.
<br />Copies of the proposed decision,
<br />said newspaper dated June 23rd, A.D., 2010. including stipulations, are on file for
<br /> public inspection at the Colorado
<br /> Division of Reclamation, Mining
<br />In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this and Safety, Room 215, Centennial
<br />23rd day of June, A.D., 2010. Denverr,, Colorado 80203. Persons
<br /> with an interest that may be adversely
<br /> affected by the proposed decision
<br /> may request a formal hearing before
<br /> the Mined Land Reclamation Board
<br /> on the proposed decision. Such
<br /> request must be made within ten
<br />n ten
<br />General manager of said Delta County Independent this(10) days notice, the initial publication of
<br />, must be in writing, and
<br /> must state with reasonable specificity
<br />Subscribed and sworn before me, a Notary Public in and for the the reasons for the request and the
<br />objections to the proposed decision.
<br />County of Delta, State of Colorado, this 23rd day of June A.D., Published in the Delta County
<br />ZO 10 . Independent June 23, 2010.
<br />Notary Public '•o S NoF
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<br />Delta, CO 81416
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