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Public Notice <br />McClane Canyon Mining, LLC, P.O. Box 98, Loma, CO, 81524, has submitted a <br />complete application for a technical revision to the Division of Reclamation, Mining and <br />Safety for its McClane Canyon Mine, mining permit No. C-1980-004. The proposed <br />revision will provide for new coal cleaning facilities, a new coal mine waste pile, <br />sediment pond and a topsoil and construction material stockpiles south of the facilities. <br />McClane Canyon mine currently trucks about 280,000 tons of coal per year to the <br />Cameo Power plant located off 1-70 at Exit 46. The Cameo Power plant is scheduled to <br />close at the end of 2010. Since the Cameo Power plant is the Mine's only customer, <br />the Mine will also close temporarily at the end of 2010. In order to continue the <br />operations, McClane Canyon Mining intends to increase production to 500,000 clean <br />tons per year and build a cleaning plant and associated facilities. The clean coal will <br />then be loaded into trucks and hauled to the Fruita Loadout. <br />The new coal cleaning plant will be located in the canyon above the offices and below <br />the mine portal. McClane Creek is an ephemeral channel that forms the canyon. <br />McClane Creek will be placed in a 660 foot long 42" diameter culvert to develop <br />necessary room for the facilities and stockpiles. Earth moving operations will shape the <br />site to accommodate a crushing and screening facility, air jig plant, product and coal <br />mine waste stockpiles and various conveyors. <br />The McClane Canyon Mine is located approximately 19 miles north of Loma, CO along <br />State Highway 139. East Salt Creek is immediately west of the permit boundary. The <br />permit area is encompassed within the following lands: <br />Township 7 South, Range 102 West, 6t" P.M. <br />Section 3: Portions of lot 14 <br />Section 14: SW/4NW/4 <br />Section 15: All <br />Section 16: E/2 <br />Section 21: E/2, E/2W/2, SW4NW/4, NW/4SW/4 <br />Section 22: All <br />Section 23: W/2NW/4, Lots 1, 2, 3, 4 <br />Section 26: NW/4NW/4 <br />Section 27: All <br />Section 28: NW/4NE/4, NE/4NW/4 <br />Section 34: N/2 <br />Containing 3562 acres, more or less. <br />The location of these sections is contained within the U.S. Geological Survey 7.5 minute <br />Howard Canyon and Garvey Canyon Quadrangle maps.