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Public Notice: Peabody Caballo Mining, LLC, Phase 1 and Phase 2 Bond Release, PT0433, TFN 7 3/296

PUBLIC NOTICE

Peabody Caballo Mining, LLC, Caballo Mine, of St. Louis, MO (Permit No. 433-T9) has applied for a Phase 1 and Phase 2 Bond Release from the Land Quality Division of the Department of Environmental Quality for the State of Wyoming.  This permit was originally approved on June 21, 1976.  The coal mining permit area is located in all or portions of the following: Sections 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36, T49N, R71W; Section 31, T49N, R70W; Sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, and 30, T48N, R70W; Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 28 T48N, R71W, in Campbell County, Wyoming.  The Caballo Mine is approximately 14 miles southeast of Gillette, Wyoming, off Wyoming Highway 59 and Bishop Road.  This area can be found on The Gap, The Gap SW, Saddle Horse Butte and Coyote Draw USGS quadrangle maps. 

For Phase 1 the parcels to be released from bond are located in Sections 3, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, and 28 in T48N, R71W. This bond release request includes approximately 154.5 acres and is for the completion of vegetation establishment and the stabilization of the surface of reclaimed lands, according to the approved reclamation plan.  Seeding for vegetation establishment on these lands occurred between 2019 and 2025.  The total amount of bond to be released is $159,806 which is 60% of the incremental bond for those 154.5 acres.  

For Phase 2 the parcels to be released from bond are located in Sections 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, and 16 in T48N, R71W. This bond release request includes approximately 510.6 acres and is for the completion of vegetation establishment and the stabilization of the surface of reclaimed lands, according to the approved reclamation plan.  Seeding for vegetation establishment on these lands occurred between 2018 and 2023.  The total amount of bond to be released is $132,034 which is 15% of the incremental bond for those 510.6 acres.  

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 West 17th Street, Suite 10, Cheyenne, WY  82002, before the close of business March 26, 2026. Objections may also be submitted by the same deadline via the Land Quality Division’s electronic comment portal at [link removed] 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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