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PATRICU SUNDERLAND 19934019033 NOTARY PUBLIC STATE OF COLORADO My Commission Expires 12-24-2021 COVED DELTA COUNTY INDEPENDENT FEB L":,..2018 Division of Reclamation, Mining & Safety 401 Meeker St. 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. 144 (TR- 144) for the Wept Elk Mine (Permit No. C-1980-007), submitted by STATE OF COLORADOMountain Coal Company, I.I.C. TR- 144 proposes to (1) update the per- mit application packet with details COUNTY OF DELTA of recently modified federal coal leases COC1362 and COC67232, and (2) allow for in-mine explora- tionto better define the influence I, Randal Sunderland, do solemnly swear that I am general of a projected fault zboe, involving manager of the Delta County Independent; that the same is a weekly development mining and under- ground drilling. All of the proposed newspaper printed, in whole or in part, and published in the County underground exploration is within of Delta, State of Colorado, continuously and uninterruptedly in the current permit boundary, with up to 30 acres of development said County of Delta for a period of more than fifty-two consecu- within an area of fee coal and up to tive weeks prior to the first publication of the annexed legal notice 20 acres within the newly modified federal lease boundaries. or advertisement; that said newspaper has been admitted to the The West Elk Mine is a/an under- United States mails as second-class matter under the provisions ground coal mine located in Delta, Gunnison County, approximately of the Act of March 3, 1879, and all amendments thereof, and that 9 mites E of Paonia, Colorado. said newspaper is a weekly newspaper duly qualified for publish- Coal interest is federal and private, and the surface affected is fed- ing legal notices and advertisements within the meaning of the laws eral and private land. The permit of the State of Colorado; that the annexed legal notice or adver- g area encompasses approximately 17,234.90 acres. tisement was published in the regular and entire issue of every This proposed decision is based on number of said weekly newspaper for the period of one con- a finding that the proposed opera- tion will comply with all require- secutive insertion; that the first publication of said notice was in ments of the Colorado surface the issue of said newspaper dated February 14th, A.D., 2018, ry coal Mining Reclamation Act, Section 34 33 101, at seq., C.R.S., and that the last publication of said notice was in the issue of and the regulations promulgated said newspaper dated February 14th, A.D., 2018. � thereunder. Copies of the proposed decision, including stipulations, are on In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this file for public inspection at the Colorado Division of Reclamation, 14th day of February, A.D., 2018. Mining and Safety, Room 215, Centennial Budding, 1313 Sherman Street, Denver, Colorado 80203. Persons with an interest that may be adversely affected by the pro- posed decision may request a �W' formal hearing before the Mined Land Reclamation Board on the General manager of said Delta County Independent proposed decision. Such request must be made within ten (10) days of the initial publication of this Subscribed and sworn before me, a Notary Public in and for the notice, must be in writing, and County of Delta, State of Colorado, this 14th day of February A.D., must state with reasonable speci- ficity the reasons for the request 2018. and the objections to the proposed decision. Published in the Delta County Independent February 14, 2018. C'Y NotaryPublic My commission expires 12/24/2021 900 Cypress Wood Lane Delta, CO 81416 PATRICU SUNDERLAND 19934019033 NOTARY PUBLIC STATE OF COLORADO My Commission Expires 12-24-2021