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• The major means of roof support will be provided by roof bolts 4 -10 feet in length installed <br />vertically. Some areas may require cable trusses and /or angled roof bolts to support <br />incompetent or unstable roof material. Roof bolts will be installed on 5 -foot centers. <br />• Certain areas will also be supported by wood posts and cribs. <br />III.A.6 Mining Plan A complete description of the mining system is included previously in this section. <br />BME intends to extract coal from the B & D coal seams by utilizing both longwall and room and pillar, <br />with pillar extraction methods. The mine is being developed by driving a series of mains and submains <br />with continuous miners. These entries serve as the arteries for coal conveying and ventilation. The <br />mains and submains, which will remain open for the life of the mine, are supported by roof bolts. <br />Additional support may include timbers, steel arches, steel mats, steel mesh and shotcrete. <br />The room and pillar sections will be laid out with a multiple -entry development system. A series of <br />rooms and crosscuts will then be mined from the main entries on a spacing to be determined by the <br />prevailing geological conditions. Coal will be cut by continuous miners. <br />After a panel of rooms has been completed, and if conditions allow, the intervening pillars will be <br />extracted, retreating toward the mains. The extraction of most of the pillar coal on the retreat will result <br />in caving of the roof some 50 to 100 feet behind the active mining area. Upon completion of a room <br />and pillar section, the caved area will be sealed off and protected with adequate barrier pillars. <br />The mine layout and the mining systems planned for the Deserado Mine are designed to maximize the <br />recovery of coal in the safest and most environmentally acceptable manner. <br />III.A.7 Subsidence <br />III.A.7.a Subsidence Area Survey. BME intends to mine or has mined coal from Federal Leases <br />C- 023703, D- 047201, C- 0126669, C -8424, C -8425, C- 44693, COC -51551 and COC- 74813. Map 1 <br />shows the proposed permit boundary and surface facilities. Map 2 shows the mineral and surface <br />ownership in and adjacent to the permit boundary. All the minerals are owned by the U.S. Government <br />and administered by the BLM. The surface is likewise owned by the U.S. Government except for <br />portions of Section 29 which is owned by Blue Mountain Energy, Inc. <br />Permit Revision #8 (02/2013) III -8 <br />