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topsoil from contour mining and from the disposal areas will be salvaged. If topsoil stripping, salvaging, and replacement at the contour operations and at the disposal azeas will occur in accordance with the plan described on pages 2.05-33 and 2.05-35 of the application, a sentence may be placed on page 2.05-10 indicating this. 72. On page 2.05-40, it is stated that "Underground development waste from fault crossings, overcast development, or roof rock will either be deposited in underground gob rooms or be placed in the surface mine backfill". By definition (1.04(22)), underground development waste is also "coal mine waste". As such, Section 4.11.3 of the Regulations allows underground development waste to be returned to underground mine workings ("gob rooms") only in accordance with a waste disposal program approved by both the Division and MSI-IA under Section 2.05.3(a) of the Regulations. Please provide this information. If the applicant, rather than placing underground development waste in underground workings, would rather place this material in the proposed spoil fills, the information required by Section 4.09.1(12) of the Regulations must be provided. Rule 2.05.3(31 Mine Facilities 73. It is stated in the second pazagraph on page 2.05-10 that "Shale and other extraneous material sepazated from the coal prior to loading will be left in the pit or placed with the overburden." As the definition of "coal processing waste" (Rule 1.04(24)) is "earth materials which aze sepazated and wasted from product coal...", it could be construed from this sentence that "processing" of coal will occur at the surface mine prior to being trucked to the loadout facility. A description of the coal processing facility or equipment planned at the surface mine would then be required. If processing is not intended, however, then this sentence should be reworded. It should be noted that Section 4.26.2(4)(c) of the Regulations requires the top of the underburden immediately below the lowest coal seam mined by mountaintop removal methods to be covered with non-toxic spoil. If "shale and other extraneous material" will be returned to the pit floor, those materials must be determined to be non-toxic prior to their placement. 74. Please provide the engineering designs for the four concrete portal openings at the Pl portal site, the four concrete portal openings at the P2 portal site, the four concrete portal openings at the P3 portal site, the four concrete portal openings at the Rl portal site and the three concrete portal openings at the R2 portal site (Section 2.05.3(3)(a)). Please provide a cross section that demonstrates how faz into each hillside the concrete structures will extend, and indicate the different safety bench configurations proposed. 75. Please provide on a map the location of all existin underground and overhead utility lines, utility poles, and substations transformers. Please provide on the same map the location of all proposed utility lines, poles, substations, and light-use maintenance roads