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4. Terror Creek has obtained a Permit for Access from the State Highway Department <br />for the highway approach and a License Agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation <br />and the Fire Mountain Canal Company to allow construction of a concrete box <br />culvert across the Fire Mountain Canal (4.03.1(1)(f)(i)). <br />B. Access Roads <br />The Division proposes to approve the retention of the graveled access road which <br />leads to the office area because it is compatible with the approved post- mining land <br />use, as stated above in the haul road section, and because a request for its retention <br />was submitted by the landowner. <br />C. Light -Use Roads <br />The Terror Creek Loadout maintains two light -use roads. One road parts from <br />County Road 4365 and enters the permit area from the east side, below the storage <br />area, and ends at the water tank. <br />2. The second light -use road parts from County Road 4365 and enters the permit area <br />from the east side, below the sediment pond. This road provides access to the <br />railroad siding and the over -the -track coal bin. <br />The two light -use roads will be reclaimed following cessation of mining activities. <br />II. Support Facilities - Rule 4.04 <br />A. Construction of support facilities did not result in any damage to any protected structures. <br />Therefore, the Division proposes to approve those activities (4.04(6)). <br />III. Hydrologic Balance - Rule 4.05 <br />A. Water Quality Standards and Effluent Limitations <br />There is one sediment pond and one dugout pond at the Terror Creek Loadout that <br />treat drainage from the disturbed area. These ponds function as designed to ensure <br />that applicable water quality standards and effluent standards are met. <br />2. The Division proposes to grant small area exemptions from the use of sediment <br />ponds, due to the limited size of the area, the fact that ponds and treatment facilities <br />are not necessary for the drainage to meet the effluent limitations of Rule 4.05.2 and <br />applicable State and Federal water quality standards for receiving streams, and due <br />to the fact that no mixing of surface drainage with a discharge from underground <br />workings will occur, as the operation is a loadout and no mining will occur. The <br />small areas to be exempted include the outslope of the facilities pad, the over -the- <br />track loadout facility, and the railroad spur track (4.05.2(3)(b)(I)). <br />B. Diversions and Conveyance of Overland Flow <br />Sediment control ditches have been designed and constructed in compliance with <br />Rule 4.05.3. Locations are shown on Map 14 and designs can be found in Exhibit 9 <br />of the permit application (4.05.3(2)). <br />C. Stream Channel Diversions <br />14 <br />