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Figure 4- Proposed MVB Pads & Roads - PR 15, revised 7/2/2018 <br />The final iteration of PR -15 included an additional longwall panel (bringing the total to <br />four), 38 total methane venting borehole pads, and 6.9 miles of roads proposed on lands within <br />the North Fork Coal Mining Area exception to the Colorado Roadless Rule. Additionally, five <br />methane venting borehole pads and about 1.5 miles of new road construction were proposed on <br />Mountain Coal's private lands. The final iteration proposed to add a total 43 mine -ventilation <br />well pads, as well as access roads to those well pads. As the maps above indicate, multiple <br />details included in Mountain Coal's initial submission were increased after the public <br />engagement period ended, impacting more acreage, constructing more roads, and building more <br />ventilation support systems to emit methane. <br />Mountain Coal additionally increased its proposed surface disturbance by 50%.11 In <br />addition to the increased land, operations, and panels, this increase in surface disturbance <br />i i Our calculations estimated that the initial mine plan would have been between 45-50 acres of disturbance. <br />12 <br />CW,h, <br />1 <br />P <br />s !fill <br />Elb <br />RD <br />i AWA <br />11 mile\\1IIIIf� , <br />Figure 4- Proposed MVB Pads & Roads - PR 15, revised 7/2/2018 <br />The final iteration of PR -15 included an additional longwall panel (bringing the total to <br />four), 38 total methane venting borehole pads, and 6.9 miles of roads proposed on lands within <br />the North Fork Coal Mining Area exception to the Colorado Roadless Rule. Additionally, five <br />methane venting borehole pads and about 1.5 miles of new road construction were proposed on <br />Mountain Coal's private lands. The final iteration proposed to add a total 43 mine -ventilation <br />well pads, as well as access roads to those well pads. As the maps above indicate, multiple <br />details included in Mountain Coal's initial submission were increased after the public <br />engagement period ended, impacting more acreage, constructing more roads, and building more <br />ventilation support systems to emit methane. <br />Mountain Coal additionally increased its proposed surface disturbance by 50%.11 In <br />addition to the increased land, operations, and panels, this increase in surface disturbance <br />i i Our calculations estimated that the initial mine plan would have been between 45-50 acres of disturbance. <br />12 <br />