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• ~yf ?1•:z applican[ has submittzd designs for ihz rail spur in Exhibit 19 of taz pzrnut matzrials. <br />Ho~tz~ er. no mt~~rr.:anon addressing Rulz 2.06.8(1) and Rule -1.'~ zot:ld bz lo~atzd. Please <br />D~t~ refer to the original yues[ion. This responsz rzmains inadequatz at this timz. <br />r/ ~ • Res~onsz <br />The last paragraph in Section 2.06.8 on page _'.06-3 has been rephrased to better address <br />Rule 2.06.8 concerns and performance standards found in Rule x.2=1. <br />The installation and maintenance of the rail line will result in a surficial disturbance which <br />will presence the essential hydrologic functions of the alluvial valley door, and existing and <br />potential agricultural uses will be maintained, as will productivity. The rail line will be <br />constructed on road bed fill, which tvill be removed following the cessation of operations. <br />Flood irrigation can ently exists in the Purgaa>ire River AVF in this location, and LCC has <br />committed to the maintenance of the Chacon Ditch during operations. The rail line twill <br />dissect a field irrigated by the Chacon Ditch, and LCC has committed [o install and <br />maintain a feeder to a small area cut oft by the spur and to culvert flow below the access <br />road and rail spur to ensure continuation of farming throughout the opera ion. No water <br />yualiry or material damage impacts to surface or ground waters are anticipated from <br />installation of the rail spur, bu[ monitoring of the essential hydrologic functions of this area <br />are provided by the ivIWLC-1 alluvial well and the surface water stations at LC-1 and <br />• PRGTl'-2 per the plan in 2.06.6(3) of this application. The reclaimed haul road spur will <br />be revegetated with the grassland mix and productivity will be evalua[zd along with other <br />measures of reclamation success (Section 2.0.4). <br />Rule 4.02 Sins and ~~[arkers <br />Responses to questions 126 and 127 are adequatz. <br />Rule 4.03 Roads <br />\ , Under this section. all responses were found adequate except as listed below. <br />1"" 128. Section =1.03.1(1 j(dl(i) of thz Board's Regulations requires a certification rzpon bz submitted <br />to the Division upon completion of construction of any haul road. This reuulation requu'es <br />I' thz certification to sta[z that the road has bzen constructed as designed and in accordance <br />/ py {~'t Stith approved plans. <br />l u This means that the Division must have haul road designs to review and approve during the <br />mine permi[ application stage, so the certification report (the czttitied "as-built°) can state <br />that the haul roads here as designed and constructed as approted by the Division. <br />Plan clefts of the locations of thz haul roads overlain onto maps of the e.~isting topography <br />• 1~laps 2.0~..-2 and'.03._-3) are sufficient to determine road ttidths. but are insufficient [U <br />de[ermine the propi>sed road gradient. Further, numerous sections of the .leff Cam'on haul <br /> <br />