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plan to construct rock slope tunnels to connect the east and wcst mines became obsolete with the <br />rehabilitation of the east mine portals. <br />The mine utilized the room and pillar mining method of extracting coal. The general direction of <br />mining had been northward to extract coal from the D seam. When mining was active, the coal <br />had movedfrom the miningface via a continuous haulage system of shuttle carsto a feeder -breaker <br />and then out of the east mine via conveyor belt to a surge bin, a screening/crushing facility and a <br />truck loading facility. After mining at the Bowie No. 1 Mine had ceased, BRL periodically would <br />truck coal from the Bowie No. 2 Mine to the Bowie No. 1 Mine storage silos and railroad loadout <br />facility where it was loaded onto trains for shipment to market. However, most of the Bowie No. <br />1 Mine unit train loadout facilities have been demolished and removed. Because mining has <br />ceased, there is no predicted production rate for this five year permit term. <br />The approved reclamation plan required that, after the conclusion of mining, the portals will be <br />backfilled, all surface facilitieswill be removed, the mine bencheswill be recontoured, the loadout <br />will be regraded to approximate original contour, and all areas will be revegetated in accordance <br />with the approved postmining land use and revegetation plan. <br />All structural demolition and backfilling and grading operations have been completed at the East <br />Mine. All structural demolition has occurred at the West Mine as well and backfilling and <br />regarding has been completed. The East Roatcap Creek culvert and twv overlying sediment ponds <br />still needto be removed, at which time the cover material over the culvert will be graded back onto <br />the hillslope and the East Roatcap Creek drainage channel reconstructed. <br />Most of the structural demolition has occurred at the loadout. The shop, railroad spur line, and <br />bridge are still in place. There has not been any backfilling of the loadout bench to date. The run - <br />of -mine stockpile area has been regraded and revegetated. The sediment pond and a portion of the <br />haul road are still in place. The pump house, water tank and water wells are still in place at the <br />well field and the temporary highway coal stockpile area needs to have the spur line and sediment <br />pond removed and the soil from the road overpass redistributed to the cut slopes. <br />14 <br />