Legal Notices for 11-30-16

COUNTY TAXPAYER’S NOTICE

The 2016 Whitley County Oil, Gas and Clay bills will be due and payable beginning December 1, 2016. If you do not receive your bill in the next few days, please contact the Whitley County Sheriff’s Office. When mailing in your payment, please include a copy of the tax bill. If you wish a paid receipt returned to you, please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. The following dates will be the collection dates for Oil, Gas and Clay bills:

2% Discount- If paid by December 31, 2016

Face Amount- If paid by January 31, 2017

5% Penalty- If paid by February 28, 2017

21% Penalty- If paid after February 28, 2017

All Oil, Gas, and Clay bills will be turned over as delinquent if not paid by May 15, 2017.

Please make checks payable to:

Whitley County Sheriff

P.O. Box 118

Williamsburg, KY 40769

NOTICE OF BOND RELEASE 918-0442

In accordance with KRS 350.093, notice is hereby given that Alden Resources LLC, 332 West Cumberland Gap Parkway, Corbin, KY 40701, has filed for a Phase III Bond Release on permit number 918-0442 which was last issued on March 13, 2012. The application covers an area of approximately 24.9 acres located 1.3 miles south of the community of Louden in Whitley County, Kentucky.

The permit area is approximately 1.18 miles southwest of the intersection of Hwy. 92 and Louden Road and 1.5 miles northeast of the intersection of Mulberry Creek and the Cumberland River.

The bond now in effect is as follows:

The permit is a Surety Bond in the amount of $95,200.00. Approximately 100% of the original bond amount of $95,200.00 is included in this application for release.

Reclamation work performed includes: Backfilling, re-grading, topsoil replacement, and drainage control including soil preparation and initial seeding and mulching in accordance with the approved reclamation plan, completed November 25, 2009.

This is the final advertisement of the application. Written comments, objections, and requests for a public hearing of informal conference must be filed with the Director, Division of Field Services, #2 Hudson Hollow, Frankfort, KY 40601, by January 3, 2017.

A public hearing on the application has been scheduled for January 4, 2017, at 9:00 am at the Department for Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s Middlesboro Regional Office, 1804 East Cumberland Avenue, Middlesboro, KY 40965-1229. The hearing will be cancelled if no request for a hearing or informal conference is received by January 3, 2017.