APPCOR11517

• Permit No: C1980006
• IBM Index Class Name: Application Correspondence
• Doc Date: 1/12/1981
• Doc Name: PROPOSED DECISION KERR COAL CO MARR STRIP MARR PREP PLANT
• From: MLR
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Stipulations
Xerr Coal Company
Ma rr Strip; Ma rr Prep Plant
/ 1~ Y.ERR COAL IS REQUIRED TO CONSTRUCT ALL DITC!!ES USING TIfE DESIGN GRADES
l~ RATHER TN,1N T1fE GRADES SHOtJN OfJ MAP 16a. IF TN IS REQUIRES RELOCATING AN'f
DITC1fES FROM THE LOCATION SHOWN ON THE MAP, TNE1J A REVISED MAP 16a MUST BE
SUBMITTED AT THAT TIME.
2. XERR COAL IS DIRECTED TO SUDMIT A TIMETABLE FOR INITIATING ALL ASPECTS OF
THE MONITORING PROGRAM DESCRIBED ON PACES 7B0-109aaa AND bbb. G'E REQUIRE
TI175 INFORMATION TO 8E SUBMITTED BY SEPTEMBER JD, 1981. IN ADDITION XERR
COAL IS REQUIRED TO SUBFfIT TO THE DIVISION A k'EARLk' REPORT ON TIfE PROGRESS
OF MONITORING IJHICN INCLUDES ALL DATA COLLECTED FOR THAT YEAR AND A DIS-
CUSSION AFlY CONCLUSIONS Wlf !Cif CAl! BE DRAWN FROM Tiff DATA. KERB COAL SHOULD
WORX CLOSELY IJITH TIfE DIVISION AS THE PROGRAM IS DEVELOPED AND ~NODIFY TO
I,VS URE THAT COMPREHENSIVE BUT EFFICIENT MONITORING (JILL TA XE PLACE.
3. THE APPLICANT SHOULD RE-ANALYZE AND RE•SUDFIIT THE EXISTIJJG DATA IN TADLE 1D
TO CONSIDER THE EFFECTS OF COAL DUST ON WATER OUA LITY I.'J THE ADJACENT SJJAhIP,
OR ALTERNATIVELY THE APPLICANT SNOULP REDESIGN THE IJA TER h10F17TOR I7JG PROGR,IM
AT THE TIPPLE TO COLLECT USADLE DATA. TlJIS INFORMATION SlfOULD BE SUBFITTED
TO TIIE DIVISION NO LATER TfIAN APRIL 1, 1981.
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4. XERR COAL COMPANY IS REQUIRED TO SUDIJZT A PLAN TO Tlf IS DIVISION, ;JO LATER
THAN SEPTEMBER 30, I~BI, FOR MINIMIZING THE D£PLETInFJ OF .FDA TER FROf4 SUDDUTH
DRAW CAUSED DY GROUND [DATER IJJFLO[JS DISCHARGING INTO PZT NO. 3. ANY FfEASUREMENTS
WHICH THE DIVISION DETERMINES TO BE NECESSARS' TO ALLEVIATE TIfIS POTENTIAL PROBLEM
SHALL BE Ih1PLEMENTED PRIOR TO MINING ADJACENT' TO SUDDUTH DRAW.
~. KERR COAL IS DIRECTED TO lfONITOR IJA TER QUALITY FROF1 THE SPRItJG AT TfiE OLD
SUDDUTH FfINE r)UARTERLY FOR ONE YEAR, ACCORDING TO THE SAME PARAMETERS AS
OTHER HYDRCLOCIC MONITORING. RESULTS ARE TO DE SUBMITTED TO THIS DIYTS7071.
u. XER.4 COAL IS REQUIRED TO UPDATE THIS PER!fIT ACCOF DINGLY AS INITIAL OR FIIJAL
DECISIONS ARE RE170ERED RELATIVE TO PEIIDING E(1ISS IOFJS PEP.MIT APPLICA TIOFIS FOR
THE PROPOSED COAL hfI,VING ACTIVITIES.
.~ 7.) KERR COAL IS REQUIRED TO STRIP TOPSOIL FROM T1lE IMPOCJFJDMFNT AREA nv nrr
~~`// S_E DIMEFJT PONDS REJdA IFr T1!f: TO BE CONSTm1CTFn ff`Nf.E55 TIfE DIVZSIOI! SPEC IFZCA LLY
AUT!lORIZES LCA4'ZIJG T7l T.S TOPSOIL IFJ PLACC, DASED ON A DEhI01JSTRATION DY KERR
COAL T1fAT SEDIh1E1JT COLLECTED IN EXISTIIJG P01JDS FALLS IJITHIN THE PARR METERS
OF NORhfAL SOIL MATERIAL, ,1ND FURTHER THAT TlIE TOPSOIL DF:NEATIf SUCII ACCUF'ULATED
SEDIPIENT GOES NOT DEFICNSTRATE ADVERSE IFIPACTS FROM .S F.DI`IENT DEPO.SITI011 ~~R
M.Tr£R RETENTION OR Sf101J A TREND TO[JARD UNACCEPTABLE SOIL PA RAFIETERS. SUC!1
DEMONSTP.ATION SIIA J.L RE DASED UPON TfIE RESIILTS Oh' T11E SED IFIENT AND TOPSOIL
SAMPLING PROGRAM PROPOSED DY KERR COAL, fJITH TIfE ADDITION OF TJfE FO LLO4JING
PARAMETERS TO T/lE ANALYSES: ARSE117C, 80ROFf, COPPER, LEAD, MERCURY, MOLY6DEFlUM,
SELENIUM, ZINC. IF Y.ERR COAL SffOULD C1f05E NOT TO IFJP LEAfEfJT TfiIS SAMPLING
PROGRAFI, TOPSOIL MUST ALSO UE STRIPPED FROFI T!!E E.CI.STING P^NDS.
9. [JTT/l RE.SPE!'T TO .SlI Pl/R Dlil/.'i7TY, A ./0T11T EFFORT f.S 'f0 11 P: MADE DY }.'ERR COA/. AF/D
TIffS DIVISION TO RF.:,EARC:I TIIE ISSUE 7F APPROPRIATE Sll R 1!9 DEIJSITIES, AfJD !,N
,1CCEPTADLE SUCCESS STAIIDARO £STABLISIIED NO LATER T/fAN SEPTEMMBER 30, 1981.