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for collector roads. Details of these specifications can be found in section 2.05.3(3) -8 <br />of the permit. <br />II. Support Facilities <br />Support facilities are located at the southeastern portion of the New Horizon Mine 2 permit <br />area. Details of the various facilities are addressed in Section 2.05.3(3), Subsection 11 of <br />the permit application package. Facilities include office and storage buildings, equipment <br />shop, and petroleum storage. Storage of petroleum products complies with the mine's Spill <br />Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) plan. There are no coal preparation <br />plants, conveyors, or permitted rail spurs. Coal was loaded into contract haul trucks within <br />the disturbed area and transported directly to the power plant. There are no fixed coal <br />loading or storage areas. <br />III. Hydrolnic Balance <br />A. Water Quality Standards and Effluent Limitations <br />The Division granted two fixed small area exemptions (SAES) and a "traveling" SAE from <br />use of sediment ponds due to the limited size of the area and due to the fact that ponds <br />and treatment facilities are not necessary for the drainage to meet the effluent <br />limitations of Rule 4.05.2 and applicable State and Federal water quality standards for <br />receiving streams and also due to the fact that no mixing of surface drainage with a <br />discharge from underground workings will occur. Each of the designed <br />impoundments will be installed prior to the advancing topsoil removal campaign <br />requires them and will be successively "reclaimed" be the advancing pit. See section <br />2.05.3(3)7 of the permit for further details, (4.05.2(3)(b)(i)). <br />B. Diversions and Conveyance of Overland Flow <br />Western Fuels- Colorado uses various types of structures to control runoff from <br />disturbed areas within the permit boundaries at the New Horizon Mine. In addition, <br />surface mining activities are planned and conducted to minimize disturbance of the <br />prevailing hydrologic balance in both the mine plan and adjacent areas in order to <br />prevent long -term adverse changes in the hydrologic balance. Sediment and runoff <br />control methods include diverting runoff through disturbed areas using stabilized earth <br />channels, culverts or pipes so as to prevent, to the extent possible, additional <br />contributions of sediment to stream flow or to runoff outside the permit area. WFC <br />also uses straw dikes, silt fences, small V- ditches, riprap, mulches, check dams, <br />vegetative sediment filters, temporary cover crops and sediment traps that will reduce <br />overland flow velocity, reduce runoff volume, or trap sediment. The complete <br />sediment and water control plan is presented in Section 2.05.3(3) Mine Facilities of <br />the permit application package. <br />With the Midterm Permit Review of November, 2005, WFC was requested to update <br />the permit application with the design information for all surface water control <br />27 <br />