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4.02. 2 (2) Signs shall show the name, address, and telephone number of the person who conducts the surface coal mining operations and the identification number of the current permit authorizing mining activities. MID-CONTINENT RESPONSE Mid-Continent maintains a conspicuous sign giving the name, address, phone number and permit number for the Coal Basin operations at the junction of the mine road with Highway 133 . This constitutes the entrance to the mine in that the road leads only to the mine property, and affords the sole access to the mine by the public. The present posting of the name, address and phone number provides adequate notice to the public. Mid-Continent does maintain a sign giving the name of the mine and indicating the permit booundary at the actual permit boundary, and repetition of the address, phone and permit numbers is unnecessary and serves no useful purpose whatsoever. There is no possibility of confusion as between the mine identified at the turn-off from Hwy. 133 and the mine site to which the only road leading from the turn-off provides sole access. There is no requirement in the statute or regulations that the entrance, for the purpose of informing the public, must be immediately adjacent or attached to the permit boundary. Mid-Continent believes that the purpose of the cited act and regulations is to inform the public, and that such a purpose is best served when the required information is posted in the manner which will be most conpicuous to the public. In this case, the present site of the sign giving Mid-Continent's name, address, phone number and permit number is the most conspicuous to the public, given its proximity to Redstone, and the fact that Hwy. 133 is traveled more frequently by the public than is the road from the highway to the mine. The NOV states that this sign should, properly, have been sited at: it the point where the public road leading west-northwest from Redstone passes into the permit area, as shown on Map II-B-1 in the permit application. " Mid-Continent then infers that had the present sign been situated at this point, namely immediately adjacent the permit area, then 2