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Description of the Loadout Operation Plan <br />Detailed information on the HG Loadout Operation Plan is found in Tab 12 of the permit <br />application. Reclamation activities associated with the Loadout and rail loop are described in <br />Tabs 16 - 20 and 23 of the permit document; and in Section B of this document. <br />Construction of the Loadout and rail loop began in 1978 and coal was shipped to market from <br />the facility until spring of 1987. Coal was again stored at the Loadout beginning late in 1992. <br />Coal has been removed and no coal is currently (2014) stored on site. <br />Technical Revision No. 5 (TR5), approved 24 July 2000, allowed for using the Loadout site to <br />off load coal from incoming rail cars. Technical Revision No. 6 (TR6) provided more detail for <br />"load -in" operations. The facilities approved in TR6 have never been constructed. The "load - <br />in" facilities were approved to handle 2,000,000 tons of coal per year. Coal would have been <br />hauled by truck along the TAHR to the Hayden Power Station. Prior to utilization as a "load -in" <br />facility, HGT would have needed to construct support facilities as approved in the permit during <br />TR6. Air emissions permits would have been required to be renewed with the Colorado Air <br />Pollution Control Division prior to implementation of "load -in" operations. Water control <br />systems and sediment ponds throughout the permit area were appropriate for the "load -in" <br />operation. The existing roads would be used for the "load -in" operations with the addition of a <br />new haul road, HGLF -HR2, previously approved under TR -06 (June 15, 2005). <br />Hayden Gulch Terminal Inc. operated the loadout facility as discussed above, and was permitted <br />to store up to 50,000 tons of coal at the Loadout and ship 1,000,000 tons of coal per year. In the <br />summer /fall of 2011, HGT initiated reclamation of the facilities area. The "load -in" facilities <br />were never constructed and the Loadout facilities were demolished and removed from the site. <br />The affected area was graded, topsoiled and seeded. The Division granted Phase I bond release <br />at the site during SL I. The future operations plan for the site during the next five year permit <br />term will be based on future economic and political conditions. No additional disturbance is <br />planned at this time. <br />Two existing sediment ponds (and associated NPDES outfalls) act as sediment control for the <br />runoff from the loadout area: the Truck Loop Pond (Pond A, NPDES Outfall 006) which treats <br />the truck loop and office area and the Rail Loop Pond (Pond B, NPDES Outfall 007) which treats <br />the coal crushing, storage and tipple areas. A system of ditches diverts freshwater around the <br />disturbance and another system of culverts and ditches conveys water under roadways and to the <br />sediment ponds (see Appendix 12 -4 and Exhibit 12 -2, "Surface Water Control Plan Map "). <br />Sixteen small area exemptions are permitted for the three topsoil stockpiles (TS -1, a portion of <br />TS -2, and TS -3) associated with the Loadout, and six topsoil stockpiles (A, C, D, E, F, and G) <br />and one temporary waste stockpile (TWS) associated with the TAHR outside the sediment <br />control system described above (see Appendix 12 -2 and Exhibit 9 -1). A small area exemption <br />has been approved for the electrical substation located in the northwest corner of the facilities <br />area. The Office/Parking Lot/Leach field has been approved as a small area exemption. The <br />permittee has demonstrated that due to the revegetation efforts of the disturbance associated with <br />the railroad loop, the peak settleable solids concentration is below the water quality effluent <br />standard. Given this, the rail loop is considered as a small area exemption. Two additional areas <br />Hayden Gulch 13 February 11, 2014 <br />