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2.05.3 <br />During late 2003 a light use road was constructed to access the material storage <br />area located east of the old power plant, south of pond C. The road is <br />approximately 80 feet long with a uniform grade of about 10%. <br />During late 2004 a light use road was constructed to access the drill site located <br />above the utility bench. The road is approximately 280 feet long with an average <br />grade of about 10% and a pitch grade of 20% for about 130 feet. <br />There is an existing light use road near Pond J and it is plated with gravel. The <br />road is approximately 2990 feet long and has a mostly uniform grade of about <br />1.25%. <br />New light use roads will be reclaimed. Reclamation of the upgraded and <br />refurbished light use roads may involve narrowing the roads so they are <br />compatible with the postmining land use of rangeland and wildlife habitat since <br />roads are necessary to manage both land uses and a light use road network was <br />existing on the property prior to mining. <br />The haul and access road construction will not alter or relocate any drainage <br />ways so no response is required. <br />(iv) The inlet end of all culverts are protected by an end section, a rock headwall, <br />concrete headwall or other material as adequate to protect against erosion of the <br />headwall. <br />(v) The applicant seeks to have the Division approve conducting the proposed <br />surface coal mining activities within 100 feet of the right-of-way line of old State <br />Highway 133 under Rule 2.07.6(2)(d)(iv). It is assumed the right-of-way line for <br />old State Highway 133 is the invert of the borrow ditch. The surface coal mining <br />activities within this right-of-way include sediment pond B & D, a portion of the <br />haul road, portions of the haul road to the gob pile, the gob pile sediment pond, <br />the gob pile topsoil pile and the gob pile cover fill stockpile. The toe of the gob <br />pile is close to being within 100 of the right-of-way. <br />All of the surface coal mining activities are located on surface owned by the <br />applicant. The applicant owns most of the land on both sides of the road where <br />these surface coal mining activities are to be located. The applicant also own <br />most of the land south of the railroad tracks. The surface coal mining activities <br />adjacent to this land include a portion of the haul road. The Connie Hutto Trustee <br />owns bare undeveloped land west of sediment pond B. <br />MR -186 2.05-36- 05/16 <br />