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GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell reassured northwest Colorado officials and U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Colo., that Interior will complete work on a study needed to keep open the Colowyo coal mine.
“We believe the best way to deliver certainty to the Colowyo mine and the people who work there is to fix the deficiencies,” Jewell told more than a dozen county commissioners, city councilors and others at the Glenwood Hot Springs Lodge Friday night.
“I’m confident we’ll do it within the 120-day deadline.”
If the timeline should slip, though, Jewell said, “We will ask for an extension.”
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