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PUBLIC NOTICE Twentymile Coal, LLC (TC), 29515 Routt County Road 27, Oak Creek, Colorado 80467, has submitted an application for a Permit Revision (PR) to the Foidel Creek Mine, Permit Number C -82- 056. The revision (PR12 -09), modifies the approved mining plans for the Western Mining District (WMD) to add a 11 -Left Panel, and extend the 12 -Left and 13 -Left longwall panels, addresses the associated development and mining of the associated coal reserves, and modifies the Mine Permit Area by adding approximately 560 acres to encompass the panel extensions and associated lease and subsidence areas. The mine pen area currently encompasses approximately 19,940 acres, located approximately 23 miles southwest of Steamboat Springs on Routt County Road 33, and approximately 7.3 miles northwest of Oak Creek on Routt County Road 27. Mine offices and major surface facilities are located adjacent to Foidel Creek, near the intersection of these two roads. The mine permit area is covered by the Cow Creek, Dunkley, Milner, Mount Harris, Oak Creek, and Rattlesnake Butte USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle maps. The lands affected by the proposed revision fall within the current Mine Pen Area, which include portions of Section 34, T5N, R87W. TC owns or controls the surface and coal within the current Permit Area, and the surface within the proposed extension area, and is currently pursuing leases of the Federal and fee coal within the extension area. Surface and coal owners for these areas include TC; the State of Colorado; the USDI- Bureau of Land Management; NRC -COI, LLC; Camilletti & Sons; the Hunter Family Trust; William and Janice Rogers; John and Hillary Rice; William and Susan Mitzelfeld, David and Linda Male, Twentymile Sheep Company, LLC; Myron Walker Trust; Paul Swisher; Ashley Investments, LLC; Gulf Oil Corporation; and the Ruth McCollister Trust. The ownership, precise location, and boundaries of lands within the Pen are identified on pages 2.03 -13 through 2.08 -18 and 2.03 -22 and 2.03 -23.1, and Maps 1 and 2, of the Mine Permit Application Package (PAP), and are included in this public notice by reference. Copies of the PAP, including the referenced Permit Revision application, (less confidential material) are available for inspection at the mine office and the office of the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety. Copies of the Permit Revision applications are also available for public inspection at the: Office of Clerk and Recorder Routt County 552 Lincoln Avenue P.O. Box 773598 Steamboat Springs, Colorado 80477 Written comments or objections to the Permit Revision application should be submitted to the State of Colorado, Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety (CDRMS), 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215, Denver, Colorado 80203 -2273 within ten days of the last date of publication of this notice.