In Re Consolidation Coal Sales Co.

OPINION BY

Judge COLINS.

This is an appeal by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (Turnpike) from an interlocutory order of a State Mining Commission (Commission) that determined the “date of taking” of support coal underlying portions of the Mon/Fayette Expressway (MFX) was November 7, 2005. 1

Between 1994 and 1998, the Turnpike acquired a number of properties in Washington County, Pennsylvania, on which it subsequently constructed a seventeen mile section of the MFX. Consolidation Coal Sales Company, DuPech, Inc., Consolidation Coal Company and Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company (collectively,…