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Loadout Facility <br />If the market allows, coal will be shipped directly to customers without the need for <br />washing during the permit term. A 7 acre stockpiling, blending, and railcar loading area <br />is planned on the south side of the main Kern Valley Railroad line immediately east of <br />the access road in Lorencito Canyon (Figure 2.05.3-1). Coal will be trucked to the area <br />where it will be crushed and stored in open stockpiles for loading on rail cars with front- <br />end loaders. Shipment will range from small multi -car to unit trains. Facilities at the site <br />may include a portable office/lunch room and a diesel storage tank. The facilitily will be <br />constructed by filling the area immediately south of the railroad and east of the access <br />road with up to 5,000 cy of clean fill to create a level pad. Vegetation and topsoil will be <br />removed and topsoil stockpiled as required. Should markets dictate the need for <br />washed coal, coal will be transported by rail to the Picketwire Processing Plant for <br />processing and unit train loading. <br />Signs and Markers <br />A mine permit identification sign will be posted at the Highway 12 entrance to the LCC <br />mine. The sign will show the name address and telephone number of the person <br />responsible for conducting surface and underground mining and the identification of the <br />current permit authorizing the operations. Additionally, a sign will be posted at the <br />Highway 12 entrance which stales "Warning Explosives in Use" an explanation of the <br />blast warning and all clear signals, and an explanation of the markings of the blast <br />areas and charged holes within the permit area. The permit perimeter will be marked <br />with brightly painted posts The posts will be placed at irregular intervals such that one <br />post can be seen from the next one. Stream buffer zones will be delineated 100 feet on <br />either side of a perennial stream using rectangular signs labeled "Stream Buffer Zone" <br />at an interval which can be seen from one sign to another. <br />(4) Ponds Impoundments and Diversions <br />The general surface water and sediment control plan consists of the diversion of clean <br />water around or through the site, and collection ditches which route runoff from <br />disturbed areas into sediment control ponds. All surface drainage from disturbed areas <br />will be passed through either a sediment control structure or controls put in place to <br />prevent the effluent from the site from exceeding applicable State and Federal water <br />quality requirements for downstream receiving waters. The surface water control plan is <br />prepared under the direction of, and certified by a qualified registered professional <br />engineer. <br />All ditches have been designed according to Sections 4.0.1(4), 4.03.2(4), 4.05.3 and <br />4.09.2(7). Drainage ditches have been designed to pass the 10 -year 24-hour storm <br />event with 0.3' of freeboard. Temporary ditches will be constructed to pass a minimum <br />of the 2 -year 24-hour storm. Side collection ditches from the fills on the surface mine will <br />be d.3signed to pass the 100 -year 24-hour storm. Drainage structures at the portals, <br />along the roads and associated with the fills are shown on Map 2.05.3-7. General ditch <br />MT -4 Page 2.05-30 November 3, 2016 <br />