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ichard A. Mills 1980 age 2 Icy. ~i / A"~c 1 ~~ I~~o~ ~' It is requested, therefore, that Energy Fuels Corporation be allowed to leave a small area of the Mine 3 highwall open, the pit along which can serve as a mine water retention area, and as a dump area for roof rock. At the shutdown of the Middle Creek Mine, about b nine years from now, material to fill this highwall area will be /~ retrieved from the spoils comprising the road fill to the spoil area in Section 24, containing about 181,000 cubic yards. Soil replacement on that portion of the Pit 3 mine area mined out, graded, and not left for the Middle Creek Mine will occur in the fall of 1980 and the early winter of 1981, with seeding to take place as soil is prepared and to be completed by October, 1981. It should be noted that mining per the mine plan as previously per- mitted using a 28 cubic yard shovel and 170 ton trucks for over- burden removal was accomplished without the 28 cubic yard shovel or the 170 ton trucks, which are at Energy Fuels Mine No. 1. Mining per the mine plan has been done using the 191-M 15 cubic yard shovel and 100 ton trucks, dozers, and loaders and 50 ton trucks. 2. Methodology trials with Energy Fuels' coal auger at Mine 3 and Mine 1 have demonstrated that it is neither possible nor practi- cable to recover coal by the auger method in dipping seams such as at Mine 3. Consequently, Energy Fuels Corporation will not be angering coal at Mine 3. 3. Soil material piles are located as shown on Map 1, herein. Sedimentation pond locations are not shown herein, and are more fully described in Exhibit 1, Sedimentation Pond Augmentation per Leonard Rice Consulting Water Engineers, Inc., of January 31, 1980. This plan as submitted is preliminary, and when Rice's final plan, expected July 15, 1980 is available, a request for final approval of that plan will be submitted. The substation and power lines for the 191-M shovel are located west of the highwall as shown on Map 1. 6. It is requested that we be allowed to remove from the permitted area approximately 40 virgin acres in the NE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 24, T6N, R86W, and that we add to the permit area a por- tion of the SE1/4 SW1/4, Section 12, TSN, R86W, totaling about 26.5 acres, as noted on Map 1. The addition of land in Section 12 will provide an area within which a few number of experimental wells may be drilled to assess the value of pumping in the Middle Creek Mine dewatering effort. Soil materials will be salvaged where recover- able, and benches cut for drill access will be restored to the approximate original contour. The permit boundary on Map 1 is revised to depict this change, and the changes in Item 7, following.