An oil well could be drilled 870 feet inside the Cheyenne Bottoms wetlands if a permit requested by H&C Oil Operating Inc., of Plainville is granted.On June 13, the US Army Corps of Engineers Kansas City District issued a public notice of the permit request. The public will have until July 4 to comment before a decision could be made.H C Oil proposes to use a blade to excavate an area approximately 250 feet by 130 feet to remove all vegetation and level the site for oil well drilling.They propose to build a temporary reserve pit to contain drilling fluids and water, which would be removed and disposed of offsite upon completion of the drilling.Once the work is complete, they would restore and revegetate all but a 30-foot-by-30 foot area where the oil well would be sited. This area they hope to use in-lieu-fee mitigation, if the permit is granted.According to the Environmental Law Institute, an in-lieu-fee program is an agreement between a regulatory agency (state, federal, or local) and a single sponsor, generally a public agency or non-profit organization.This means, instead of mitigating damages at the wellsite, the corporation would pay a fee to the US Army Corps of Engineers that would be used by itself or pooled together with other fees to create one or a number of sites to satisfy the permittees’ required mitigation.The Plainville corporation also requests an unpaved access road, 15 to 20 feet wide by 870 feet long, to service the well.Charles Ramsay, part-owner and president of H&C Oil, said in a telephone interview Monday afternoon that the proposed well would be a vertical well, not a horizontal fracking well.