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• Jerry Koblitz <br />Page 5 <br />July 22, 1997 <br />Lorencito permit, the Division withholds its approval of such mine waste disposal <br />activity. <br />73. The Division's original question (March 3, 1997) requested more information pertaining <br />to a facility that would be needed for the separation of "shale or other extraneous <br />material" from the coal prior to loading. The applicant's response (April 25, 1997) <br />acknowledged this extraneous material would by definition be "coal processing waste", <br />and stated that a "breaker" would be used at the loadout for processing. The Division, in <br />its May 27, 1997 letter, requested a description of this breaker and designs for a coal <br />processing waste bank. The applicant, on it July 1, 1997 response provided this <br />information. <br />From a telephone conversation on July 8, 1997, the Division now understands that the <br />applicant has decided against installing the proposed breaker, but wishes to permit the <br />coal processing waste bank as an underground mine development waste bank. The <br />application must be therefore revised in the following manner to fully implement the <br />• applicant's latest wishes: (a) all references to the coal loadout breaker must be removed <br />from the application; (b) all references to coal processing occurring at the loadout or in <br />the surface mine must be removed from the application; D a map prepazed to a scale of 1 <br />inch to 500 feet (1:6000) showing the location and orientation of the proposed waste bank <br />must be submitted (Rules 2.05.3(8)(a)(1)(B) and 2.10.1(1)). This map must be certified <br />(Rule 2.10.3(2)); (d) the currently-submitted plans and drawings for the waste bank do <br />not appeaz to have been prepared by, or under the direction of, a registered professional <br />engineer, and if fact have not been, must be, before the Division may approve them; (e) <br />information addressing the requirements of Rules 2.05.3(8)(a)(I)(C), (D) and (E) must be <br />supplied; (f) information addressing the requirements of Rule 2.05.3(8)(a)(ii) must be <br />supplied; (g) information pertaining to what the maximum dry density of the coal waste is <br />expected to be (Rule 4.10.4(3)) must be supplied; (h) a demonstration that the proposed <br />construction of the waste bank will achieve a minimum static safety factor of 1.5 (Rule <br />4.10.4(2)) must be supplied; (I) plans for upland diversions and bank surface runoff <br />collection systems (Rule 4.10.3(2)) must be supplied. <br />Until this information is submitted to, and reviewed and approved by, the Division, the <br />application cannot be approved to include an underground mine development waste bank <br />as part of the proposed mine activities. <br />• 75. The applicant's response is inadequate. The applicant states that proposed substation <br />transformers (plural) are located on Map 2.05.3-1. They are not. Further, revised page <br />