Public notice of Surface Mining Application Permit Expansion

PUBLIC NOTICE OF SURFACE MINING APPLICATION PERMIT EXPANSION

Hunt Midwest Mining, Inc., 8300 NE Underground Drive, Suite 300, Kansas City, MO 64161, has applied for a permit from the Department of Natural Resources, Land Reclamation Commission, to continue to mine limestone on 80 acres of land for a total of 103 acres located in Daviess County, Section 17, Township 61 N, Range 28 West. This operation will be conducted during the approximate dates of November 1, 2002 to May 15, 2027.

Written comments or a request for a hearing and/or an informal public meeting may be made by any person with a direct, personal interest in one or more of the factors that the Missouri Land Reclamation Commission may consider in issuing a permit. As required by The Land Reclamation Act, sections 444.70 to 444.790, RSMo, any person whose health safety or livelihood will be unduly impaired by the issuance of a permit, in relation to such items as permitting and reclamation requirements, erosion and siltation control, excavations posing a threat to public safety, or protection of public road rights-of-way may request a hearing, public meeting or submit written comments. If a hearing is requested, the Commission shall also consider if the applicant or any associated person or corporations in Missouri has demonstrated that during five (5) years immediately preceding the date of the permit application that a pattern of noncompliance with any environmental protection laws and regulations administered by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources at other locations in Missouri suggests, based upon competent and substantial scientific evidence on the record that a reasonable likelihood of future noncompliance may occur. Such noncompliance must have been at any one single facility and resulted in harm to the environments or impaired the health, safety or livelihood of persons outside of the facility. For any permit seeker that has not been in business in Missouri for the past five (5) years, the Commission may review the record of noncompliance from any state where the applicant has conducted business during the past five (5) years.

Send written comments, requests for a hearing and/or a public meeting to: Staff Director, Land Reclamation Program, Department of Natural Resources, P.O. Box 176, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0176.

All comments and requests for hearings and/or public meetings must be submitted in writing to the Staff Director’s office no later than fifteen (15) days following the final public notice publication date.

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