Legal Notices for 4-26-2023

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

The City Utilities Commission of Corbin, of 1515 Cumberland Falls Highway, Corbin KY 40701 will receive sealed bids to refurbish a raw water vertical turbine pump and motor.

Sealed bids will be received at the CUC office, 1515 Cumberland Falls Highway, Corbin, Kentucky 40701 until Monday, May 8, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. at which time they will be opened and read aloud.

Bid specifications will be available at the CUC office during regular office hours M-F 8:00 a.m. till 4:00 p.m. (Phone 606-528-4026).  The CUC reserves the right to waive informalities and to reject any and all bids.

PUBLIC NOTICE

The Housing Authority of Williamsburg is developing documents related to the Annual Agency Plan process and Five-Year Capital Fund Program budgets for Fiscal Year beginning 10/1/2023 in compliance with current regulations. They are available for review at the Housing Authority office located at 600 Brush Arbor Road, Williamsburg, KY.  Office hours are Monday – Thursday, 8:30AM and 5:30PM. A public hearing will be held 1:00 PM on June 22, 2023 at the Housing Authority office.  A Special Board Meeting to approve these documents will be held immediately following the Public Hearing.

PUBLIC NOTICE OF BLASTING SCHEDULE

Mountainside Coal Co., Inc., 5540 Hwy 1809, Barbourville, Kentucky 40906, Telephone Number: (606) 277-0060, shall conduct blasting operations on its 614 acre surface mine permit, located sixteen and one-half (16.5) miles southeast of Williamsburg, Kentucky, on Kentucky Highway 92, near the community of Siler, in Whitley County, Kentucky.

The proposed operation is approximately two (2) miles northeast of Harpes Creek Road’s intersection with Kentucky Highway 92.

The latitude is 36-41-51N; the longitude is: 83-55-53W. The surface area on which blasting operations will be conducted is owned by Corrigan TLP LLC, TKY Acquisition, LLC, and Edd B. Jones.

Blasting Operations will begin 5-01-23.   Blasting will be conducted each day Monday through Saturday during daylight hours.  No blasting will be conducted after official sunset. This schedule shall be in effect from 05-01-23 until 05-01-24.

Any major alterations to the blasting scheduled will be published.  Unscheduled blasting may occur in emergency situations when rain, lightning or other atmospheric conditions or operator or public safety requires unscheduled detonation.  The nearby residents will be notified of the unscheduled blast by the most appropriate means and the blast shall then proceed as a regular blast.   Entry to blasting area will be regulated by signs or barriers.  An authorized company representative will prohibit access to the blasting areas by unauthorized persons at least five (5) minutes before each detonation and until the all clear signal is sounded.  WARNING SIGNAL: A one (1) minute series of long blasts five (5) minutes prior to the blast signal. BLAST SIGNAL: A series of short blasts one (1) minute prior to the detonation. ALL CLEAR SIGNAL: A prolonged blast following the inspection of the blast area. Events which could necessitate blasting at unscheduled times include, but are not limited to rain, lightning, or other atmospheric conditions, or deteriorated explosives which involve personnel, operational or public safety.    Any major alteration of this blasting schedule will be published.

This notice is published pursuant to CFR 715.19 Surface Mining and Reclamation and Enforcement Provisions and KRS 350.220 and the regulations relating thereto.  The MSHA ID Number is 15-19627.  The Kentucky DNR Permit Number is 918-0465.

NOTICE OF BOND RELEASE

In accordance with KRS 350.093, notice is hereby given that American Highwall Mining, LLC, 212 Kendall Avenue, Chilhowie, Virginia 24319 has applied for Phase I Bond Release on Increment Nos. 3 of Permit Number 918-0434, which was last issued on February 23, 2022.  Increment No. 3 covers an area of approximately 22.0 acres located 1.2 miles east of the 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 36o 48’ 28”. The longitude is 84o 06’ 15”.

The bond now in effect for Increment No. 3 of Permit Number 918-0434 is a Cash Bond and Certificate of Deposit in the total amount of fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000.00), which sixty (60%) of the bond at fifty thousand dollars ($55,000.00), is being requested for release.

Reclamation work performed on Increment No. 3 includes: backfilling, final grading and seeding completed in June 2019.

This is the final advertisement of the application. Written comments, objections, and requests for a public or informal conference must be filed with the Director, Division of Field Services, #2 Hudson Hollow, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601, by May 26, 2023.

A public hearing on the application has been scheduled for May 30, 2033 at 9:00a.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 May 26, 2023.