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• PROPCSID DEVEIAPMENP ACTIVITY The development of the new mine portal calls for the construction of surface facilities requiring the modification of the existing terrain and veeggetational features-of the area. All such facilities were considered in the follaaing visual assessment and include a new portal bench, an access/haul road, water service line and power service line. Detailed descriptions and plans of the proposed improvanents are included in other sections of the Mined Land Reclamation Application of which this report is inwrporated. Following is a brief description of those aspects of the proposed activities which have greatest applicability to the visual assessment: PORTAL SITE The proposed portal site is located on top of and to the west of East Roatcap Creek. The site is canposed of an approximately ninety foot deep fill over the top of East Roatcap Creek extending frcan elevation 7170 on the east to elevation 7200 to the west. A bench at elevation 7200 is cut into the valley wall west of the creek. Both the cut and fill areas of the site slope fran south to north. The south face of the fill has an approximate 140 foot elevation difference from the rim to flowline of the creek. The cut slope is 120 feet high at its highest point. Both the cut and fill slope are broken near mid-slope by a twenty foot wide bench. All disturbed areas are proposed to be revegetated. • A warehouse and shop building are to be constructed on the westerly portion of the site along with an electrical substation. A three thousand ton coal pile will be the most significant mass form proposed for the site. The coal pile, substation and building are located on the bench cut portion of the site and are bounded on three sides by cut slopes. Trucking of coal from the site is anticipated to last approximately two years, afterwhich the mal pile will not be a required element of the site. At that time an underground wnnection with the Orchard Valley Mine Portal should be oonq~lete, allowing coal to be removed through that portal. ACCFSS/HAUL ROAD The proposed road closely follows the alignment of the existing "Blouch Road" begining at the Stevens Gulch Road crossing over the ridge line west of Stevens Gulch and extending to the portal site in the Fast Roatcap Creek drainage. The road will be referenced in two segments for the purpose of the visual assessment. Segment I includes the first portion of the road from Stevens Gulch Road to the ridge line. This portion of the road is characterized by both cut and fill slopes with one long fill slope which nearly intersects cut slopes on Stevens Gulch Road. Most of the existing disturbance created by the "Blouch Raid" is obliterated by the propoesed access road. • 3 -- ..... ~ ..~ - .. L,..~..a,_., .. ,