Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is coming to Colorado, but a visit to the Colowyo coal mine isn’t on her itinerary — at least not yet.

Jewell is scheduled to speak Friday at the Aspen Institute, just a three-hour drive from Craig, where residents are frantic over the threat of a coal mine shutting down as a result of a lawsuit filed by environmentalist group WildEarth Guardians.

Gov. John Hickenlooper, Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner, and Rep. Scott Tipton have urged her to visit the area and hear from the community about the mine’s importance to the northwest Colorado economy.

“It’s my hope that Ms. Jewell can make time to tour both the Colowyo mine and Trapper mine, before she heads back to the Washington, D.C., beltway,” said Moffat County Commissioner John Kinkaid in a statement.

Interior spokeswoman Emily Beyer didn’t rule out the possibility of a detour to the region. The mine lies between Craig and Meeker near the border of Moffat and Rio Blanco counties.

“You’re correct that Secretary Jewell will be in Aspen later in the week for the Institute’s Hurst Lecture Series,” Beyer said in a Tuesday email. “We’ll plan to issue the balance of the Secretary’s schedule later in the week.”

Jewell dealt a blow to the mine’s chances last week by declining to file an appeal in the case. In a statement, an Interior spokeswoman said that the department is confident it can finish the court-ordered environmental review within the 120-day deadline, which falls Sept. 6.

The mine’s owner, Tri-State Generation and Transmission, has filed for a stay of U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson’s May 8 order pending an appeal.

“The optics of the Secretary giving a speech in Aspen and not including a side trip to northwest Colorado are horrible,” Kinkaid said. “We are at the epicenter of Department of Interior activity and our miners need to her from her.”

Jewell visited Moffat County in January 2014 with Hickenlooper for a tour and discussion of state and local efforts to improve sage-grouse habitat.