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Introduction <br />The Southfield Mine is in reclamation only status since operations permanently ceased in <br />2000. EFCI commenced reclamation activities at the mine site in 2001, demolishing <br />surface facilities and sealing mine openings. By 2003, backfilling, regrading, and topsoil <br />replacement was completed according to plans approved by the DRMS. Permanent <br />seeding was completed on all reclaimed areas by October, 2003. Additional revegetation <br />efforts including planting of shrubs and trees in selected areas of the reclaimed site <br />during April, 2004. The coal loadout site located near Florence, Colorado, was similarly <br />reclaimed in 1997, including permanent seeding completed during the same year, then <br />again in 1999. <br />EFCI requested, and the Division subsequently approved, two partial bond releases <br />(SL -03 and SL -04) for the vast majority of the mine site area, and the entirety of the <br />coal loadout site. By revision to the permit (TR -47), the loadout permit area was <br />eliminated. This revision reduced the total permit area at the mine site to approximately <br />1.45 acre, incorporating three sites in long-term reclamation, as follows: the former <br />substation pad and road, roads associated with former monitoring well MW -NW, and the <br />lower portion of the Magpie Permanent Diversion Channel. <br />The following narrative in section 2.05.3 was not revised in TR -47, and is intended <br />primarily for historical information. <br />During the second permit term which extends through July 30, 1994, EFCI will continue <br />underground coal mining operations in the Jack O'Lantern and Red Arrow seams in the <br />northeastern, southeastern and western portions of the permit area as illustrated by the <br />Mine Plan Map, (Map 17). Underground mining operations and related surface operations <br />will utilize essentially the same methods and equipment as presently utilized. Principal <br />underground production equipment includes electrically powered continuous miners, <br />shuttle cars, roof bolters, feeder -breakers, and an underground belt haulage system. <br />Underground production operations utilize continuous mining equipment mine <br />development, and support equipment including utility vehicles, diesel scoops, rock <br />dusters, power centers, ventilation equipment, pumps and other miscellaneous <br />equipment. <br />2.05.3-1 <br />TR -47 Revised 11/17/2016 <br />