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Page Five Preliminary Adequacy Review GEX - Roadside 6 Cameo Mines April 27, 1981 2.04.12 Fish and Wildlife Resource Information 1. The applicant is requested to submit a wildlife map showing areas of deer winter range, locations of raptor nests, important waterfowl habitat, etc., with surface facilities superimposed. 2.05.2 Operations Plan - Estimated Area for Life of Operation 1. On page 84 of volume 1, the applicant states that it is not anticipated that there will be any areas for which a new, separate, five-year permit will be obtained. This statement needs further clarification. It appears from the statement that GEX will not apply for any further five-year permits, yet Exhibit 5 shows that mining will continue until I995. 2.05.3 Operation Plan - Permit Area 1. The applicant has requested a five-year permit term which would most likely end some time in 1986. However, the whole application is based on a permit term ending in 1985. The applicant should make the necessary changes in the application. An example is that affected area would change from 1,293 acres to 1,355 acres. 2. The applicant must submit a plan for the installation of monitoring wells in the underground areas to be backfilled with coal processing waste, the stratum underlying the mined coal, and an area down gradient from the back- filled areas as required by 2. 05.3(10)(d). In addition, baseline ground- water data will have to be collected as a basis for comparison to these wells. The operator should contact the Division for further information on locations, etc. 3. The applicant should include the geotechnical investigations that were performed in order to demonstrate that the Roadside and Cameo waste piles will have a static factor of safety of 1.5 or greater that were required as part of interim approval for this waste fill. These reports could be included as an appendix with the narrative committing the applicant to following the recommendations in the investigation. 4. Haul road ql and part of access road N1 shown on Exhibit 6A are hardly visible on the copy of the exhibit submitted. Many of the contour lines in the vicinity of the roads are obscured as well. The applicant should submit a more legible copy of this exhibit. 5. Zn many instances, the applicant has not made it clear where roads begin and end, and which sections of existing roads shown on Exhibits 6A through 12A are to be used during mine operations. The applicant must clearly mark alI exhibits to show which sections of roads will be used and for what purpose. For example, where does Access Road ii2, Exhibit 8A, terminate? Also, roads proposed to be used by the applicant during mining operations should be clearly marked on the exhibits so as to be discernable from existing roads which will not be used.