DELTA COUNTY
<br />RECEIVED
<br />INDEPENDENT
<br />JUN
<br />192017
<br />DIVISION OF RECLAMATION
<br />401 Meeker St.
<br />MINING AND SAFETY
<br />P.O. Box 809
<br />Delta, CO 81416
<br />NOTICE OF PROPOSED DECISION
<br />The Colorado Division of
<br />Reclamation, Mining and Safety
<br />AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
<br />proposes to approve Technical
<br />Revision Application No. 141
<br />ITR -141) for the West Elk Mine
<br />(Permit No. C-1980-007), submit-
<br />ted by Mountain Coal Company,
<br />STATE OF COLORADOLLC.
<br />TR -141 seeks to make an
<br />incidental chan¢a to the permit
<br />boundary in order to accommo-
<br />date the maximum projected angle
<br />of draw caused by mining longwall
<br />panels E7 and E8 up to the current
<br />lease boundary. TR -141 will add 80
<br />I, Randal Sunderland, do solemnly swear that I am managing
<br />'acres to the existing permit area,
<br />editor of the Delta County Independent; that the same is a weekly
<br />which represents an increase of
<br />less than 0.5%.
<br />newspaper printed, in whole or in part, and published in the County
<br />The West Elk Mine is a/an under-
<br />of Delta, State of Colorado, continuously and uninterruptedly in
<br />ground coal mine located in Delta,
<br />Gunnison County, approximately
<br />said County of Delta for a period of more than fifty-two consecu-
<br />9 miles E of Peonia, Colorado.
<br />tive weeks nor to the first publication of the annexed legal notice
<br />p p g
<br />Coal interest is federal and private,
<br />and the surface affected is Fed-
<br />or advertisement; that said newspaper has been admitted to the
<br />eral and private land. The permit
<br />United States mails as second-class matter under the provisions
<br />area encompasses approximately
<br />17,154.90 acres.
<br />of the Act of March 3, 1879, and all amendments thereof, and that
<br />This proposed decision is based
<br />said newspaper is a weekly newspaper duly Qualified for Publish-
<br />on a finding that the proposed
<br />operation will comply with all
<br />ing legal notices and advertisements within the meaning of the laws
<br />requirements of the Colorado
<br />of the State of Colorado; that the annexed legal notice or adver-
<br />Surface Coal Mining Reclamation
<br />Act, Section 3433101, at seq.,
<br />tisement was published in the regular and entire issue of every
<br />C.R.S., and the regulations promul-
<br />number of said weekly newspaper for the period of one con-
<br />gated thereunder.
<br />Copies of the proposed deci-
<br />secutive insertion; that the first publication of said notice was in
<br />sion, including stipulations, are on
<br />the issue of said newspaper dated June 7th, A.D., 2017, and
<br />file for public inspection at the
<br />Colorado Division of Reclamation,
<br />that the last publication of said notice was in the issue of
<br />Mining and Safety, Room 215,
<br />said newspaper dated June 7th, A.D., 2017.
<br />Centennial Building, 1313 Sherman
<br />Street, Denver, Colorado 80203.
<br />Persons with an interest that may
<br />In witness whereof I have hereunto set m hand this
<br />be adversely affected by the pro-
<br />posed decision may request a
<br />7th day of June, A.D., 2017.
<br />formal hearing before the Mined
<br />Land Reclamation Board on the
<br />proposed decision. Such request
<br />must be made within ten (10) days
<br />of theinitial publication of this
<br />notice, must be in writing, and
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<br />must state with reasonable speci-
<br />ficity the reasons for the request
<br />General manager of said Delta County Independent
<br />and the objections to the proposed
<br />decision.
<br />Published in the Delta County
<br />Subscribed and sworn before me, a Notary Public in and for
<br />Independent June 7, 2017.
<br />the County of Delta, State of Colorado, this 7th day of June A.D.,
<br />2017.
<br />Notary Public
<br />My commission expires 12/24/2017
<br />900 Cypress Wood Lane
<br />Delta, CO 81416
<br />PATRICIA -31-', DERLAND
<br />NOTARY PUBLIC
<br />STATE OF COLORADO
<br />My Commission Expires 12-24-2017
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