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<br /> <br /> 11 <br />roads; three conveyors; a coal stockpile and reclaim tunnel; a coal sampling building; a coal batch- <br />weigh railcar loading building; a motor control center; an equipment/materials storage area; an <br />office/maintenance/shop trailer; a fuel tank; a water tank; a power line and transformer; a rail spur, <br />rail loop, and railroad bridge; two topsoil piles; a cover-fill material storage area; a storage area <br />for potentially unsuitable subgrade soils and other materials; and three non-discharging <br />sedimentation ponds. The area east of Reed Wash was previously disturbed by industrial <br />operations associated with the old refinery located to the east of the property. In the eastern part <br />of the site, there are several large impoundments that were utilized as evaporation ponds and <br />landfarm areas for refinery-generated waters and waste materials. There are several landfill areas <br />at the site where coke fines are buried, along with a seven-acre closed landfill which contains <br />solidified acid-sludge material. <br /> <br />Coal will be hauled to the Loadout by others in highway legal trucks. Coal will be dumped from <br />the trucks into a truck dump, conveyed underground beneath a rail loop by a stacker conveyor, <br />then brought back to the surface by the stacker conveyor to a radial conveyor situated on the other <br />side of the rail loop. The coal will then be placed by the radial conveyor into a 40,000 cubic yard <br />stockpile. A reclaim tunnel containing belt feeder cells will exist beneath the radial coal stockpile. <br />Coal will be conveyed from the reclaim tunnel by a loading conveyor to a batch weigh railcar <br />loading building constructed over the rail loop. A cross-belt coal sampling system will be <br />installed on the loading conveyor, and will be housed in a building separate from the loading <br />building. The sampling building will be located between the reclaim tunnel and the loading <br />building. Coal will be weighed and loaded into rail cars in the loading building for shipment to <br />customers located elsewhere. Coal throughput at the Loadout will increase with time, <br />maximizing to approximately one million tons per year. No processing of coal (crushing, <br />screening, or washing) is approved to occur at the Loadout at this time. <br /> <br />Two haul roads are approved to be constructed within the permit area, as illustrated on permit <br />Map 15 - Haul Road Plan and Profile. Haul roads will be constructed using a minimum 12-inch <br />thickness of gravel, topped with 6 inches of 1-1/2 inch diameter road base surfacing. <br /> <br />Haul Road #1 is 0.58 miles long, and provides vehicular access and egress to the permit area <br />from County Road 15. This haul road is 25 feet wide, and occupies an easement 30 feet in <br />width. The maximum grade of Haul Road #1 is 0.1%. Due to the narrow easement width and <br />the flat grade of the road, sediment and erosion control will be accomplished by the installation <br />of excelsior logs along the southern side of the road embankment. Also, rather than having a <br />center crown, the entire surface of Haul Road #1 will be graded to drain to the south. <br /> <br />Haul Road #2 is 0.22 miles long, and forms a one-way loop from which the coal haul trucks <br />access the truck dump. Once the trucks have transferred their loads to the truck dump, they will <br />proceed along Haul Road #2 to Haul Road #1 and exit the permit area. Haul Road #2 is 20 feet <br />in width; the grade varies from 0.0% to 2.2%. Runoff from this haul road flows to Pond #1. <br /> <br />One access road is approved to be constructed for this site, providing vehicular access to the <br />Loadout’s facilities, including the coal stockpile, conveyors, material storage area, and ditches. <br />The access road is approximately 0.2 miles long, and has a maximum grade of 0.2%. <br />