2016-08-18_REPORT - C1980007

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: Report
• Doc Date: 8/18/2016
• Doc Name: Annual Reclamation Report
• From: Mountain Coal Company
• To: DRMS
• Email Name: DIH
• Email Name: LDS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Colorado
Division of
Reclamation, Mining
and Safety
Annual
Reclamation
Report for the Year 2015
Revised
West Elk Mine
Mine name
C-1980-007 Mountain Coal Company, LLC
Permit # Permittee
Address: 5174 Highway 133, Somerset, Colorado, 81434
This report, required by Rule 2.04.13, is due by February 15 of each year, or other date, as agreed upon by the Division. It should
include text, discussion, and maps, at a minimum, in addition to any other reclamation monitoring data as required by the approved
permit. The location of the acreage reported under each land status category and year of seeding (if applicable) should be clearly and
accurately identified on a map included with the report.
Land Status Category
Last Year's
Cumulative Total
This Calendar
Year
Phase III Bond
Release
Cumulative Total'
Acres disturbed
511.04
+
3.55
-
24.2
=
490.39
Acres backfilled and graded
109.87
+
9.97
-
24.2
=
95.64
Areas topsoiled
109.87
+
9.97
-
24.2
=
95.64
Seeding typically begins the minimum 10 -year reclamation liability period. Please report the acres for each category below. Do
not include acres that have achieved final, Phase III release.
Seeding typically begins
Last Year's
This
Phase III Bond
the minimum 10 -year
Cumulative
Calendar
Cumulative
10 years
Greater than 10
,
reclamation liability
Total
year
Release
Total ,
or less
years
Acres seeded*
109.91 **
+
9.97
-
24.2
=
95.68
=
72.78
+
22.9
*include, if necessary, a description of any augmented seeding or cultural practices
**The number of acres seeded is slightly higher than the acres topsoiled to account for the reclamation of helicopter accessed drill
pads and another site in 2010 and 2011 where no site preparation was needed, so no topsoil replacement was required.
For the Entire Life of Mine. the total number of acres disturbed 514.59
Phase I release 111.28 Phase II release 67.6
For Mines in Permanent Cessation:
Total acreage in facilities subject to reclamation but yet to be completed NA
For Government Performance and Results Act
and the total number of acres:
Phase III release 24.2
Acreage in long-term mining or reclamation facilities2 394.75
Acreage in active mining areas3 N/A — West Elk Mine is an underground mine operation, so there are no pits or
spoil stockpiles that are part of active mining areas.
'(exclude acres where Phase III release has been achieved)
2Includes haul and access roads; temporary dams and impoundments; permanent dams and impoundments; diversion and collector ditches, water and air monitoring
sites; topsoil stockpiles; overburden stockpiles; repair, storage and construction areas; office area, repair shops, and parking; coal stockpiles, loading, and processing
areas; railroads; coal conveyors; nonbackfilled and graded areas of refuse piles, coal mine waste impoundments, head -of -hollow fills, and valley fills; ventilation shafts
and entryways; and noncoal waste disposal area (garbage dumps and coal combustion by-products disposal areas).
3Includes pits, topsoil stripped areas in advance of pits, and spoil not backfilled and graded
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