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The Cordero Rojo Mine of Gillette, WY Permit No.237-T11 has applied for Phase 3 bond release from the Land Quality Division of the Department of Environmental Quality for the State of Wyoming. This permit was originally approved on January 9, 1975. The coal mining permit area is located in: Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, and 16, T46N, R71W, and Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35, and 36, T47N R71W,, Campbell County, Wyoming. The permit area is approximately 22 miles south of Gillette, WY on Campbell County T7 Road. This area can be found on the Gap SW, Saddle Horse Butte, Neil Butte, and Eagle Rock USGS quadrangle map(s). The parcels to be released from bond are located in Sections 2 and 3 of T46N, R71W and Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 34, 35 of T47N, R71W. This bond release request includes 4,419.7 acres of Phase 3 Bond Release and includes the release for topsoil replacement, scarification, and revegetation in the amount of $2,077,944 for the above described area. Reclamation was completed between 1986 and 2015.
Information regarding the mining operation, reclamation procedures and areas proposed for release may be reviewed in the Office of the Land Quality Division of the Department of Environmental Quality in Cheyenne and Sheridan, Wyoming. Written objections to the proposed bond release request must be received by the Administrator of the Land Quality Division, Department of Environmental Quality, 200 W. 17th Street, Suite 10, Cheyenne, WY 82002 before the close of business September 25, 2025. Objections may also be submitted by the same deadline via the Land Quality Division’s electronic comment portal at https://lq.wyomingdeq.commentinput.com/. If written objections are filed, and a public hearing is requested, the Environmental Quality Council (Council) shall hold a public hearing within sixty (60) days after the final date for filing objections unless a different period is stipulated to by all parties. The Council shall publish notice of the time, date and location of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the locality of the proposed operation once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks immediately prior to the hearing. The hearing shall be conducted as a contested case in accordance with the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act (W.S. §16-3-101 through §16-3-115), with a right of judicial review as provided in that act. Without prejudice to the objector or applicant’s right to a hearing before the Council, the Administrator may hold an informal conference to resolve written objections after notification to all parties. The Administrator shall make a record of the conference unless waived by all parties, which shall be accessible to all parties. The Administrator shall furnish all parties of the conference with a written finding of the Division based on the conference, and the reasons for the finding.
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