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5 <br />Raw coal will be transported by conveyor belt to a raw coal stockpile. Raw coal will <br />either be loaded onto trucks or fed via conveyor belt into the preparation plant. Clean <br />coal will be transported from the plant to the clean coal storage stockpile via a <br />conveyor belt. The processed coal will be loaded onto trucks from the stockpile <br />using a front-end loader and shipped via Highway 12 to the Jansen Yard. Clean coal <br />may also be stored in the existing coal silos and loaded directly to trucks or with the <br />front- end loader. <br />The projected increase beyond one million tons will require the reinstallation of rail <br />to the mine site. A new unit train loadout will be constructed. These changes are not <br />anticipated to result in an increase in disturbed area and will be addressed in a permit <br />revision. <br />The Operator will use a feeder breaker and elevating belt to load the RDA <br />conveyor with development waste material. The loading point is north of the river in <br />a runoff containment area located east of topsoil stockpile No. 2. A temporary feeder <br />breaker and temporary elevating belt will be utilized to load the RDA conveyor. <br />During rehabilitation of the mine, a maximum of 10,000 cubic yards of development <br />waste material will be temporarily stored in the raw coal stockpile area, as shown on <br />Map 11 -Sheet 3 Facilities. The timeframe for temporary storage is 30 days from the <br />first placement of development waste from underground rehabilitation or the time <br />required for approval of a permanent Development Waste Disposal Area #2(DWDA <br />#2) south of Highway 12. The waste at the raw coal pile will be stored in no more <br />than 2- to 4 -ft lifts. If a second lift is necessary, the first lift will be compacted using <br />the rubber tires equipment traveling on the material to further stabilize the temporary <br />pile. The waste material is anticipated to be similar in nature to other development <br />waste previously stockpiled on site. Experience on site dictates that the makeup of <br />these materials and the analysis of the coal is not indicative of the components that <br />would potentially lead to acidic runoff or adversely affect groundwater quality. Each <br />of these stockpiles has the appropriate controls to capture runoff applicable to the <br />NPDES permit. The mine has a long history of stockpiling coal without encountering <br />spontaneous combustion. <br />During mining the coal refuse will be disposed of permanently by conveying it to the <br />RDA. The RDA facility is described in detail in the later sections of this permit <br />application. Development waste is disposed of in the Development Waste Disposal <br />Area 42(DWDA #2) located immediately southeast of the main entrance until it <br />reaches capacity, and then will be hauled to the DWDA #3, located in the West Mine <br />area, following approval of Technical Revision No. 65 (TR -65). Technical Revision <br />No. 60 (TR -60) provides for the installation of culverts to create a conveyor corridor <br />from the DWDA 42 to the RDA beltline. Minor Revision No. 101 (MR -101) <br />provides for the installation of the conveyor between the DWDA #2 and the RDA <br />beltline. A belt feeder, 500 -foot long beltline and one hundred foot long elevating <br />conveyor will be utilized to convey the development waste to the RDA conveyor. <br />Section 2.05 RN -6 10/17/2016 <br />