2011-02-28_REVISION - C1980007

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 2/28/2011
• Doc Name: Proof of Publication
• From: Delta County Independent
• To: DRMS
• Type & Sequence: TR124
• Email Name: TAK
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Delta County
,ndependent
401 Meeker St.
P.O. Box 809
Delta, CO 81416
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
STATE OF COLORADO
COUNTY OF DELTA SS.
NOTICE OF PROPOSED
DECISION
The Colorado Division of
Reclamation, Mining and Safety pro-
poses to Approve Technical Revision
Application No. 124 (TR-124) for the
West Elk Mine (Permit No. C-1980-
007), submitted by Mountain Coal
Company, LLC. The operator pro-
poses to add the maximum projected
areal extent of potential mining to the
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?r permit application.
The West Elk Mine is a undergrotfnd
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Coal 'interest
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of Paonia
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approximately. 17,154.90 acres.
This proposed decision is based on
a finding that the proposed operation
will comply with all requirements of
I, Randal Sunderland, do solemn] swear that I am mana n
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Reclamation Act, Section 34-?3-101
editor of the Delta County Independent, that the same is a weekly _ _ eu'sea. And theYeguratii
` news a er riinbed in whole or in art, and ` ublished in the Count
p p p p p y promulgated thereunder.
Copies of the proposed decision,
of Delta, State of Colorado, continuously and uninterruptedly in including stipulations, are on file for
said County of Delta fora period of more than fifty-two consecu-
y public inspection at the coloring
Division of Reclamation, Mining
tive weeks prior to the first publication of the annexed legal notice and Safety, Room 215, Centennial

or advertisement; that said newspaper has been admitted to the
Building; Sherman Street,
1313
Denver, Colorado 80203. Persons
United States mails as second-class matter under the provisions with an interest that may be adverse-
of the Act of March 3, 1879, and all amendments thereof, and that ly affected by the proposed decision
said newspaper is a weekly newspaper duly qualified for publish- may request a formal hearing before
ing legal notices and advertisements within the meaning of the laws the Mined Land Reclamation Board

of the State of Colorado; that the annexed legal notice or adver- on the proposed decision. Such
request must be made within ten
tisement was published in the regular and entire issue of every (10) days of the initial publication of

number of said weekly newspaper a er for the period of one con-
y p p
notice, must in writing, and
this
must state with reasonable specificity
secutive insertion; that the first publication of said notice was in the reasons for the request and the

the issue of said newspaper dated February 23rd, A.D., 2011, objections to the proposed decision.
Published in the Delta County
and that the last publication of said notice was in the issue of Independent February 23, 2011.
said newspaper dated February 23rd, A.D., 2011.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this
23rd day of February, A.D., 2011. lorado Surface Goal Minin
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General manager of said Delta County Independent
Subscribed and sworn before me, a Notary Public in and for the
County of Delta, State of Colorado, this 23rd day of February A.D.,
2011.
Notary Public
My commission expires 12/24/2013
900 Cypress Wood Lane
Delta, CO 81416
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