Kemmerer Gazette Legal Notices, May 13, 2025

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PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act and the Wyoming Public Service Commission’s (Commission) Rules, the Commission hereby gives notice of the Annual Update to the Final Low-Carbon Energy Portfolio Standards plan filed by Rocky Mountain Power (RMP or the Company) pursuant to the provisions of Wyoming Statute § 37-18-102 and Chapter 3, Section 38 of the Commission’s rules, as more fully described below.

  1. RMP is a division of PacifiCorp, an Oregon corporation, engaged in the business of supplying electric utility service to customers throughout its six-state service territory, including Wyoming. RMP is a public utility subject to the Commission’s jurisdiction. Wyo. Stat. §§ 37-l-101(a)(vi)(C) and 37-2-112.
  2. On March 31, 2025, RMP filed this Annual Update to its Final Low-Carbon Energy Portfolio Standards Plan (Plan) pursuant to Wyoming Statute § 37-18-102, Commission Rule Chapter 3, Section 38, and Docket No. 20000-616-EA-22 (Record No. 17032). It addresses progress towards implementation of the Plan as it relates to Dave Johnston Unit 4 and Jim Bridger Units 3 and 4. These units are utility owned, coal-fired generation facilities.
  3. RMP states, it has taken steps in the past calendar year to implement the Company’s 2024 Final Plan. The Company initiated Phase 1 of its three-phase Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) study at Jim Bridger to evaluate the addition of a full-scale amine-based carbon capture system. The Company will continue to advance the Jim Bridger FEED study and AFC project, stay apprised of technological developments and funding opportunities in the CCUS field, and provide annual updates to the Commission.
  4. This is not a complete description of the Application. The complete Application is available at the Commission’s offices or online at https://dms.wyo.gov/external/publicusers.aspx (Enter Record No. 17784), or RMP’s website at www.pacificorp.com.
  5. Anyone desiring to file a statement, intervention petition, protest, or request for a hearing must do so in writing, on or before June 5, 2025. Public comments should be submitted to wpsc_comments@wyo.gov. Any intervention request filed with the Commission shall set forth the grounds of the proposed intervention or request for hearing as well as the position and the interest of the petitioner in this proceeding. Please be sure to mention Docket No. 20000-681-EA-25 in all correspondence with the Commission.
  6. If you wish to participate in this matter and you require reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact the Commission at (307) 777-7427, or 2515 Warren Avenue, Suite 300, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002. Communications impaired persons may contact the Commission through Wyoming Relay by dialing 711.

Dated: May 6, 2025.

PUBLISHED: May 13, 20, 2025            23425

PUBLIC NOTICE OF PROPOSED KEMMERER SUBDIVISION ON SOUTH CANYON ROAD

Pursuant to Section 20-12 of Kemmerer City Code, notice is hereby given that The Kemmerer City Council is holding a public hearing Tuesday May 27th, 2025 at 7:15 p.m. at the Kemmerer City Hall Conference Room, 220 State Hwy 233, Kemmerer, Wyoming, to review and consider final plat approval of  Canyon Road Development Tract 3, a 7-lot, 115.958-acre subdivision on South Canyon Road, filed by Canyon Road Holdings, LLC.  All interested persons are invited to attend and present verbal or written statements.  Further information regarding this notice can be obtained from City Administrator Brian Muir, bmuir@kemmerer.org, (307) 828-4061.

PUBLISHED: May 13, 2025      23424

PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act and the Wyoming Public Service Commission’s (Commission) Rules and Regulations, notice is hereby given of Rocky Mountain Power’s (RMP or the Company) filing of its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), as more fully described below:

  1. RMP is a division of PacifiCorp, an Oregon corporation, engaged in the business of supplying electric utility service to customers throughout its six-state service territory, including Wyoming under certificates of public convenience and necessity issued by the Commission. The Company is a public utility subject to the Commission’s jurisdiction. Wyo. Stat. §§ 37-l-101(a)(vi)(C) and 37-2-112.
  2. On December 31, 2024, RMP filed its draft 2025 IRP. On January 8, 2025, the Company made the non-confidential supporting workpapers publicly available on its website. On March 31, 2025, the Company filed its final 2025 IRP. On April 11, 2025, the Company filed the supporting workpapers. The Company states the Preferred Portfolio, derived from the IRP demonstrates reliable service requires: investment in transmission infrastructure; new wind and solar resources; the conversion of four coal-fired generation units to natural gas-fired peaking units; significant demand response and energy efficiency programs; the addition of carbon capture technology to specific coal-fired resources; the addition of an advanced nuclear resource; and the addition of other energy resources.
  3. The 2025 IRP includes: 3,782 MW of new wind resources; 7,524 MW of storage resources; 5,912 MW of new solar resources, both utility level and small-scale; and 500 MW of advance nuclear resources, which is the NatriumTM Reactor Demonstration Project. The Company states the 2025 IRP Preferred Portfolio is in addition to previously contracted wind, solar, and battery storage capacity which the Company expects to complete in the 2025 to 2026 timeframe. The 2025 IPR also includes capacity and energy saving details associated with the Company’s demand side management, energy efficiency programs, and direct load control programs.
  4. The 2025 IRP describes multiple transmission projects which provide connection for generation resources and upgrades to energy transfer capability from southern Utah to the major load center in Wasatch Front. It includes new transmission lines, and various upgrades, to transfer capability between points in Oregon and Idaho. It also includes a new transmission line and upgrades to connect generation resources in Washington.
  5. The 2025 IRP includes the conversion of Dave Johnston, Units 1 and 2, and Naughton, Units 1 and 2, to natural gas-fired plants in order to meet federal and state environmental compliance requirements. The 2025 IRP also calls for retrofitting Jim Bridger Units 3 and 4 with carbon capture technology to meet environmental compliance requirements. The 2025 IRP includes additional discussion of other coal-fired generating units.
  6. RMP states the primary objective of the 2025 IRP is to identify the best mix of proxy resources to serve its customers across its six-state service territory. The Company recognizes and assesses least cost, least risk portfolio requirements specific to each individual state. The Company states the 2025 IRP Preferred Portfolio is supported by comprehensive data analysis and an extensive public input process which included nine online public input meetings beginning in January of 2024.
  7. This is not a complete description of the 2025 IRP filing. You may review the non-confidential version of the 2025 IRP and its non-confidential supporting workpapers online at: https://www.rockymountainpower.net/about/rates-regulation/wyoming-regulatory-filings.html and at the Commission’s office or online at: https://dms.wyo.gov/external/publicusers.aspx (enter Record No. 17741).
  8. Anyone desiring to file a statement, intervention petition, protest or request for public hearing in this matter must do so, in writing, on or before May 30, 2025. Petitions shall set forth the grounds of the proposed intervention or request for hearing as well as the position and the interest of the petitioner in this proceeding. The Commission encourages the public’s participation and comments will be received through the close of the evidentiary record in this proceeding. Please mention Docket No. 20000-676-EA-24 in all correspondence with the Commission.
  9. If you wish to participate in this matter and you require reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact the Commission at (307) 777-7427, or write to the Commission at 2515 Warren Avenue, Suite 300, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002, to make necessary arrangements. Communications impaired persons may also contact the Commission by accessing Wyoming Relay at 711.

Dated: April 30, 2025.

PUBLISHED: May 6, 13, 2025  23421

Destruction of Permanent Files

This notice is submitted to alert all families of children who attended a Lincoln Uinta Child Development Association developmental disabilities preschool program during the school year 2017 through 2018. If your child received services through one of LUCDA’s centers (Alpine Child Development Center, Bridger Valley Child Development Center, LUCDA-Evanston, Kemmerer Child Development Center, Star Valley Child Development Center (Afton or Thayne) during the years listed, those records will be destroyed on or after June 1, 2025. If parents wish to obtain their child’s records they may contact the local center where their child attended, or the LUCDA Regional Office at P.O. Box 570, Mountain View, WY 82939, (307) 782- 6602 prior to June 1, 2025. Records will be given only to those who can prove guardianship of the child. If you are a friend or relative of a child who attended the program during these years, please assist the program by notifying parents that records are available.

Contact person:

Candice Stewart, Lincoln Uinta Child Development Association;

PO Box 570, Mountain View, WY 82939

(307) 782-6602

PUBLISHED: April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2025     23416

State of Wyoming       )           In the District Court

County of Lincoln        )           Third Judicial District

In the Matter of the Estate of ) ss       Probate No.

Margaret Popp, Deceased.     )           2025-CV-00000 13

Notice of Probate

TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN SAID ESTATE:

You are hereby notified that on the 6th day of April, 2025, the estate of the above named decedent was admitted to probate by the above named court, and that William Lee Popp, Jr. was appointed personal representative thereof.

Notice is further given that all persons indebted to the decedent or to her Estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned at 622 Elk Street, Kemmerer, Wyoming, 8310 1.

Creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate are required to file them in duplicate with the necessary vouchers, in the office of the Clerk of said Court, on or before three months after the date of the first publication of this notice, and if such claims are not so filed, unless otherwise allowed or paid, they will be forever barred.

Dated April 29, 2025

William Lee Popp, Jr.,

Personal Representative

PUBLISHED: April 29, May 6, 13, 2025           24415

FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE

Default in the payment of principal and interest has occurred under the terms of a Promissory Note (the “Note”) dated May 29, 2019, executed and delivered by William James Beauchamp (“Mortgagor”) to Bank of England, and a real estate Mortgage (the “Mortgage”) of the same date securing the Note, which Mortgage was executed and delivered by said Mortgagor, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Mortgagee, as nominee for Bank of England, its successors and assigns, and which Mortgage was recorded on May 30, 2019, at Reception No. 1003612, in Book 948, at Page 719 in the public records in the office of the County Clerk and ex-officio Register of Deeds in and for Lincoln County, Wyoming.

The Mortgage was assigned for value as follows:

Assignee: Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee for CSMC 2021-NQM8 Trust, a Delaware statutory trust

Assignment dated: March 14, 2023

Assignment recorded: March 21, 2023

Assignment recording information: at Reception No. 1029366, in Book 1083, at Page 160

All in the records of the County Clerk and ex-officio Register of Deeds in and for Lincoln County, Wyoming.

The Mortgage contains a power of sale which, by reason of said default, the Mortgagee declares to have become operative, and no suit or proceeding has been instituted at law to recover the debt secured by the Mortgage or any part thereof, nor has any such suit or proceeding been instituted and the same discontinued.

Written notice of intent to foreclose the Mortgage by advertisement and sale has been served upon the record owner and the party in possession of the mortgaged premises at least ten (10) days prior to the commencement of this publication, and the amount due upon the Mortgage as of May 7, 2025 being the total sum of $270,765.54, plus interest, costs expended, late charges, and attorney fees accruing thereafter through the date of sale.

The property being foreclosed upon may be subject to other liens and encumbrances that will not be extinguished at the sale. Any prospective purchaser should research the status of title before submitting a bid.

If the foreclosure sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of his/her/its money paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagee, Mortgagor, Servicer, or their attorneys.

NOW, THEREFORE, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee for CSMC 2021-NQM8 Trust, a Delaware statutory trust, as Mortgagee, will have the Mortgage foreclosed by law by causing the mortgaged property to be sold at public venue by the Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff in and for Lincoln County, Wyoming to the highest bidder for cash at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon on June 10, 2025 at the Lincoln County Courthouse located at 925 Sage Ave, Kemmerer, WY 83101, for application to the above-described amounts secured by the Mortgage, said mortgaged property being described as follows:

Lots 80 and 82 of the Amended Plat of Star Valley Ranch Plat 1, Lincoln County, Wyoming as described on the official plat filed January 6, 1971 as Instrument No. 427346, Plat No. 174 in the Office of the Lincoln County Clerk. 

With an address of 925 Spruce Drive, Star Valley Ranch, WY 83127 (the undersigned disclaims liability for any error in the address).

Together with all improvements thereon situate and all fixtures and appurtenances thereto.

Mortgagee shall have the exclusive right to rescind the foreclosure sale during the redemption period. In the event that the sale is rescinded or vacated for any reason, the successful purchaser shall only be entitled to a refund of his/her/its purchase price and/or statutory interest.

Dated: April 30, 2025  Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity,

 but solely as Owner Trustee for

CSMC 2021-NQM8 Trust, a

Delaware statutory trust

By: Brigham J. Lundberg

Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C.

376 East 400 South, Suite 300

Salt Lake City, UT 84111

801-355-2886

HWM File # WY21080

PUBLISHED: May 13, 20, 27, June 3, 2025      23432