2015-01-23_REPORT - C1981041

• Permit No: C1981041
• IBM Index Class Name: Report
• Doc Date: 1/23/2015
• From: J.E. Stover & Associates, Inc
• To: DRMS
• Annual Report Year: 2014
• Permit Index Doc Type: Annual Reclamation Report
• Email Name: BFB
• Email Name: DIH
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Snowcap Coal Company, Inc. -2- 2014 Annual Reclamation Report
Tunnel under 1 -70, Pond 8 & Pond 9 (No. 29 Below) (Ph III release
on 13.5 acres in 2010)
Roadside South Portal Road to Old Upper Diversion Ditch (No. 30 Below) 1.9
Railroad Loop Track - South of 19/10 Road (No. 31 Below) 0.3
(Ph III release on 0.3 acres in 2009)
Cameo Refuse Disposal Area No. 1 Road (No. 32 Below) 1.2
Unit Train Load -out, Railroad Loop Track/Conveyor Corridor & Roads 66.7
(No. 33 Below) (Ph I I I release on 66.7 acres in 2011)
Haul Road #3 at UTL (No. 33 below) (Ph III release on 0.9 acres in 2011 -
previously listed as permanently disturbed acres) 0.9
Cameo Refuse Disposal Area No 1 & 2 Sediment Ponds (6 & 10) 2.4
Total 230.0
Areas permanently disturbed are as follows:
Description
Access Road to No. 2 West Portals (No. 21 Below)
3.8
Haul Roads to CRDA 1, 2 and 3
3.4
Access Road #2 (Through North Decline)
0.4
Coal Creek Realignment (No. 34 Below)
0.8
Coal Gulch Realignment (No. 20 Below)
1.4
North Portal Upper Diversion Ditch (No. 22 Below)
1.4
Top Soil Pile #2 (remnant) (No. 22 Below)
0.3
Total
11.5
Acres Disturbed by Mining Activities 241.7
Less Previously Reclaimed Areas 230.0
Less Permanently Disturbed Areas 11.5
Equals Remaining Reclamation Acres 0.2
(c) Area backfilled and graded — 0 acres during 2014.
(d) Area Top - soiled — 0 acres during 2014.
(e) Area Seeded — 0 acres during 2014. Pond 8, which was initially reclaimed &
seeded in 2011, was re- seeded in October 2014. Nothing but kochia weeds
were establishing in this 0.5 acre area, so it was re- tilled, re- seeded and mulched
(seed mix is attached).
Whitetop was treated in April, using Curtail, at the Roadside South Borrow Area
& reclaimed upper diversion ditch, reclaimed water tank area at South Portal,
reclaimed Pond 9 area & South Fan area. Russian Knapweed was treated in
September, using Curtail, above the Roadside Borrow Area. Halogeton was
treated in April, May, June & August, using Chlorsulfuron, at the reclaimed Ponds
6, 7, 9, 10, 11 & 13, CBA #1 Sump, Topsoil Pile #1 & the North Decline Sumps.
Mature tamarisk trees at the North Decline Channel, reclaimed Pond 9 area &
lower bench at CRDA #1 were removed & treated in October 2014 by W.D.
Yards, Inc. using the cut -stump method. Individual trees were cut close to the