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DELTA COUNTY RECEIVED INDEPENDENT 272016 JUN DMSION OF RECLAMATION 401 Meeker St. MINING AND SAFEY P.O. Box 809 Delta, CO 81416 NOTICE OF PROPOSED DECISION The Colorado Division of AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION Reclamation, Mining and Safety proposes to approve Technical Revision Application No. 138 (TR -138) for the West Elk Mine STATE OF COLORADO (Permit No. C-1980-007), submit - ted by Mountain Coal Company, LLC. Technical Revision 138 (TR- S.. COUNTY OF DELTA 138) seeks to make minor chang- es to the locations of four Mine Ventilation Boreholes (MVBs), and eliminate a fifth. The size of the I, Randal Sunderland, do solemnly swear that I am managing pads associated with each MVB will not change; they will be from editor of the Delta County Independent; that the same is a weekly 0.25 to 2.0 acres in size. A segment newspaper printed, in whole or in part, and published in the County of new road will be necessary to reach MVB E7-4; this is expected of Delta, State of Colorado, continuously and uninterruptedly in to be about 14' in width and said County of Delta for a period of more than fifty-two consecu- 400' in length. All other roads are existing. tive weeks prior to the first publication of the annexed legal notice The West Elk Mine is a/an under-' or advertisement; that said newspaper has been admitted to the ground coal mine located in Delta, Gunnison County, approximately United States mails as second-class matter under the provisions 9 miles E of Paonia, Colorado of the Act of March 3, 1879, and all amendments thereof, and that Coal interest is federal and private, and the surface affected is fed - said newspaper is a weekly newspaper duly qualified for publish- eral and private land. The permit ing legal notices and advertisements within the meaning of the laws area encompasses approximately 17,154.90 acres. of the State of Colorado; that the annexed legal notice or adver- This proposed decision is based tisement was published in the regular and entire issue of every on a finding that the proposed operation will comply with all number of said weekly newspaper for the period of one con- requirements of the Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation secutive insertion; that the first publication of said notice was in Act, section 3433101, at seq., the issue of said newspaper dated June 15th, A.D., 2016, and C.R.S., and the regulations promul- that the last publication of said notice was in the issue of gated thereunder. Copies of the proposed deci- said newspaper dated June 15th, A.D., 2016. sion, including stipulations, are on file for public inspection at the Colorado Division of Reclamation, In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this "nirfg and Safety, Room 215, 15th day of June, A.D., 2016. Centennial Building, 1313 Sherman Street, Denver, Colorado 80203. Persons with an interest that may be adversely affected by the pro - Posed decision may request a formal hearing before the Mined / � (` Land Reclamation Board the V.(�tiyy(� proposed decision. Such request General manager of said Delta County Independent must be made within ten (10) days of the initial publication of this notice, must be in writing, and Subscribed and sworn before me, a Notary Public in and for the must state with reasonable speci- ficity the reasons for the request County of Delta, State of Colorado, this 15th day of June A.D., aegis oobjections to the proposed 2016. Published in the Delta County Independent June 15, 2016. Notary Public My commission expires 12/24/2017 900 Cypress Wood Lane Delta, CO 81416 PATRICIA SUNDERLAND NOTARY PUBLIC STATE OF COLORADO My Commission Expires 12-24-2017