The next regularly scheduled State Mining Council meeting after a variance request is submitted, the State Mining Council shall:
(a) Review and read aloud the variance request;
(b) Take comments from the company requesting the variance;
(c) Take comments from any other interested person or party;
(d) Read into the record all written comments received prior to the State Mining Council meeting;
(e) Discuss the merits of the variance request;
(f) Take a public vote, by a show of hands, on whether or not to grant the requested variance;
(g) Where the variance is granted, set a time period for which the variance is effective;
(h) Impose any conditions upon the variance that the State Mining Council deems necessary;
(i) Record the variance request proceedings of the State Mining Council meeting; and
(j) The decision of the State Mining Council regarding the variance request shall constitute a final agency action.
053-3 Wyo. Code R. § 3-6