2017-03-13_REPORT - C1981008

• Permit No: C1981008
• IBM Index Class Name: Report
• Doc Date: 3/13/2017
• Doc Name: Annual Reclamation Report
• From: Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc
• To: DRMS
• Annual Report Year: 2016
• Permit Index Doc Type: Annual Reclamation Report
• Email Name: BFB
• Email Name: DIH
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

New Horizon Mine
Mine name
New Horizon Mine
Figure 1- CDRMS Annual Reclamation Report Form
Annual Reclamation Report for the Year 2016
C-1981-008
Permit #
Address: P.O. Box 628 / 27646 W. 50' Street Nucla, CO 81424
Elk Ridge Mining & Reclamation, LLC
Permittee
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 Years Cumulative Total
This Calendar Year
Cumulative Total 1
Acres disturbed
735.6 NH2 + 73.7 NH 1*
0.0 NH2 + 0.0 NHl
809.3
Acres backfilled and graded
624.2 NH2 + 73.7 NH1 *
0.0 NH2 + 0.0 NHl
697.9
Acres tonsoiled
602.5 NH2 + 73.7 NH *
0.0 NH2 + 0.0 NH
1 676.2
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.
**=include, if necessary, a description of any augmented seeding or cultural practices
For the Entire Life of Mine, the total number of acres disturbed 809.3 and the total number of acres:
Phase I released 582.9 NH2 + 285.3 NH1 = 868.2 Phase II released 316.6 NH2 + 204.7 NH1 = 521.3
Phase III released 16.6 NH2 + 204.7 NH1 = 221.3
For Mines in Permanent Cessation:
Total acreage in facilities subject to reclamation but yet to be completed
6. 6. For Government Performance and Results Act
Acreage in long-term mining or reclamation facilities 2 61.8
Acreage in active mining areas 3 1.4
'(exclude acres where Phase III release has been achieved)
2 Includes 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; refuse piles and coal mine waste impoundments; head -of -hollow fills;
valley fills; ventilation shafts and entryways; and noncoal waste disposal area (garbage dumps and coal combustion by-products disposal areas).
3 Includes pits, topsoil stripped areas in advance of pits, and spoil not backfilled and graded
* The NHl 73.7 acres is currently covered under Permit No. C-2010-089 and C-1981-008. Please see Permit No. C-2010-089 Annual
Reclamation Report for information on this area.
**h12015 the cumulative acres seeded was reported as 644.4 acres. This was an error in reporting and it should have been reported as 642.1
(including 73.7 acres for NH I).
2016 Annual Reclamation Report Page 7
Last Years
This Calendar
Cumulative Total
10 years or less
Greater than
Cumulative Total
year
10 years 1
568.4 NH2 +
11.8 NH2 +
260.3 NH2 + 0.0
319.9 NH2 +
Acres seeded**
73.7* NH
0.0 NH1
653.9
NH1
73.7 NH I*
**=include, if necessary, a description of any augmented seeding or cultural practices
For the Entire Life of Mine, the total number of acres disturbed 809.3 and the total number of acres:
Phase I released 582.9 NH2 + 285.3 NH1 = 868.2 Phase II released 316.6 NH2 + 204.7 NH1 = 521.3
Phase III released 16.6 NH2 + 204.7 NH1 = 221.3
For Mines in Permanent Cessation:
Total acreage in facilities subject to reclamation but yet to be completed
6. 6. For Government Performance and Results Act
Acreage in long-term mining or reclamation facilities 2 61.8
Acreage in active mining areas 3 1.4
'(exclude acres where Phase III release has been achieved)
2 Includes 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; refuse piles and coal mine waste impoundments; head -of -hollow fills;
valley fills; ventilation shafts and entryways; and noncoal waste disposal area (garbage dumps and coal combustion by-products disposal areas).
3 Includes pits, topsoil stripped areas in advance of pits, and spoil not backfilled and graded
* The NHl 73.7 acres is currently covered under Permit No. C-2010-089 and C-1981-008. Please see Permit No. C-2010-089 Annual
Reclamation Report for information on this area.
**h12015 the cumulative acres seeded was reported as 644.4 acres. This was an error in reporting and it should have been reported as 642.1
(including 73.7 acres for NH I).
2016 Annual Reclamation Report Page 7