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• Introduction - Continued <br />the area strip mine wil be temporarily stockpiled until highway legal <br />coal haulers are contracted to transport the coal to Energy Tiple No. 2 <br />via the recently upgraded 5.1 mile portion of County Road ~~33. The unit <br />train load-out facility is situated south of County Road ~~27 and west of <br />Colorado Yampa Coal Company's local/general office complex. All surface <br />support facilities and structures associated .with Energy Mine No. 3 are <br />located in Routt County, as shown on the General Local Map that follows <br />this introduction. <br />Size and Nature of Operations <br />• Colorado Yampa Coal Company will excavate coal from the Wadge Coal <br />Seam for two years and reclamation activities are planned to be completed <br />within the five (5) year permit term. The rights to the mineral estate <br />were acquired through a lease agreement with Rocky Mountain Fuel Company <br />and the surface of the proposed permit area is owned exclusively by Getty <br />Minerals Marketing, Znc, an affiliate of CYCC. <br />The area strip mining method will be utilized with overburden <br />removal initially being conducted by a truck/loader combination and later <br />switching to a dozer operation. Coal will be extracted with the <br />equipment used to provide access to the seam. <br />• Surface coal mining operations began in 1974 at Energy Mine No. 3 <br />and were continuous through September 1980. The surface mine has <br />