Legal Notices for 12/23/15

 PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to 405 KAR 8:010, Section 16(5), the following is a summary of permitting decisions made by the Department for Natural Resources, Division of Mine Permits with respect to applications to conduct surface coal mining and reclamation operations in Whitley County. MOUNTAINSIDE COAL CO INC, 9180465, 11/30/2015, MOUNTAINSIDE COAL CO INC, 9180466, 11/12/2015.

PUBLIC NOTICE

An ordinance amending the Whitley County Budget for Fiscal Year 2015-2016, to include unanticipated receipts increasing/decreasing from various Funds in the amount of $68,6000.00 and increasing/decreasing expenditures from the various Funds in the amount of $68,600.00 was passed on 12/15/15. A copy of the Emergency Ordinance with full text is available for public inspection at the Office of the County Judge Executive during normal business hours.

Pat White, Jr., County Judge executive

NOTICE OF BOND RELEASE

In accordance with KRS 350.093, notice is hereby given that American Highwall Mining, P.O. Box 1539, Chilowie, Virginia 24319 has applied for Phase I Bond Release on Increment No. 1 of Permit Number 918-0434, which was last issued on February 13, 2015.  Increment No. 1 covers an area of approximately 8.2 acres located 1.2 miles east of junction of the Jack’s Fork Road and KY Rt. 26 & 1.0 miles Southeast of Rockholds in Whitley County.

The permit is approximately 0.1 miles south of Helton Hollow. The latitude is 36° 48’ 28”.The longitude is 84° 06’ 15”.

The bond now in effect for Increment No. 1 of Permit Number 918-0434 is a Cash Bond in the amount of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00), which sixty (60%) of the bond at fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00), is being requested for release.

Reclamation work performed on Increment No. 1 includes: backfilling, final grading and seeding completed in the August 2014.

This is the final advertisement of the application. Written comments, objections, and requests for a public hearing or informal conference must be filed with the Director, Division of Field Services, #2 Hudson Hollow, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601, by January 22, 2016.

A public hearing on the application has been scheduled for January 25, 2016 at 9:00 a.m.  at the Department for Natural Resource’s Middlesboro Regional Office located at 1804 Cumberland Ave., Middlesboro, Kentucky 40965. The hearing will be canceled if no request for a hearing or informal conference is received by January 22, 2016.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO MINE

Pursuant to Application Number 861-0543 NW

In accordance with the provisions of KRS 350.070, notice is hereby given that Mountainside Coal Co., LLC, 7692 S. Hwy 25-W, Williamsburg, KY, has applied for a coal mining and reclamation operation located near Permon in Knox and Whitley Counties.  The permit proposes 434.6 acres of surface disturbance and will underlie an additional 548.0 acres making a total area of 982.6 acres within the permit area.

The proposed operation is approximately 1.2 miles north of the intersection of Hwy 779 and Hwy 1418 and located near Flat Creek and Cotton Creek.

The proposed operation is located on the Barbourville & Rockholds U.S.G.S. 7 1/2 minute quadrangle maps.  The surface area to be disturbed is owned Robert Lambdin, Vickie Partin, Charles Cupp, Carolyn A. Moses, David Monhollen, Glenn Lawson, Willard (Wayne) Hubbs, Donald Mackey, Calvin Jones, Willard & Freda J Hubbs, James Carter, Blanche & Harold Edward Ward, Venda Hill, Joyce Lawson, Debbie Lawson and Gino Cima.  The permit will underlie land owned by Robert Lambdin, Vickie Partin, Charles Cupp, Carolyn A. Moses, David Monhollen, Glenn Lawson, Willard (Wayne) Hubbs, Donald Mackey, Calvin Jones, Willard & Freda J Hubbs, James Carter, Blanche & Harold Edward Ward, Venda Hill, Joyce Lawson, Debbie Lawson, Gino Cima and Denver Ray & Millard Elliott.  The operation will use the contour and auger methods of mining. 

This is the final advertisement of this application; all comments, objections or requests for a permit conference must be received within 30 days of this date. The permit application has been filed for public inspection at the Department for Natural Resources, Division of Mine Reclamation and Enforcement’s Middlesboro Regional Office, 1804 East Cumberland Avenue, Middlesboro, KY 40965-1229.  Written comments, objections, or requests for a permit conference must be filed with the Director, Division of Permits, #2 Hudson Hollow, U.S. 127 South, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601.