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• <br />J <br />i <br />1.0 INTRODUCTION <br />J.E. Stover & Associates retained WESTEC, Inc. (WESTEC) in October, 1995 to prepare a <br />design and report to aid Bowie Resources, Limited (BRL) in the permitting of a new coal mine <br />waste bank at the Bowie No. 2 Mine in Bowie, Colorado. Bowie, Colorado is located <br />approximately 6 miles east of Paonia, Colorado on Highway 133. <br />In the area of the proposed Bowie No, 2 Mine, the King Mine was operated from 1903 to <br />1974. To facilitate the new operations at the Bowie No. 2 Mine, a new coal mine waste bank <br />pile will be constructed to provide a disposal area below an existing mine portal, between two <br />ridges as shown in the attached drawings. A third ridge, located between the two bounding <br />the proposed waste bank, will be removed and stockpiled for later use in reclamation. This <br />new disposal area will be accessed via an abandoned railroad alignment to the east of the <br />waste bank and sediment pond. Design drawings attached with this design show planned <br />waste bank, sediment pond, and access. The capacity of the proposed coal mine waste bank, <br />as designed, is 33 years at 7,000 cubic yards per year Icyy). <br />The design and recommendations presented in this report were prepared to meet or exceed <br />requirements set forth in the Re_gulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for <br />Coal Mining, 2 CCR 407-2(CDNR, 1994). Attached are appendices containing field and <br />laboratory results, slope stability results, hydrology and sedimentology results, and the design <br />drawings. <br />95266/1424.RPT Coal Mine Waste Bank Final Design for the Bowie No. 2 Mine <br />June t996 WESTEC <br />ADCQU,~GY-Ol <br />