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Once sufficient coal is removed, the dragline proceeds to strip the next adjacent pit, spoiling the <br />overburden into the box cut. The sequence will repeat until the dragline is scheduled to move to a <br />Wadge pit to open another section of pit. The dragline is currently scheduled to move back and forth <br />between the Wadge area and the Sage Creek/Wolf Creek areas until the Wadge Pit is finished, and <br />then remain in the northern Sage Creek/Wolf Creek area until mining is finished. <br />As the dragline proceeds northward in the Wolf Creek area it will require proportionately more time to <br />complete each pit and to remove the coal. Just prior to the dragline reaching the edge of the northern Sage <br />Creek area, scrapers will open a pit of the Sage Creek coal seam and place the overburden over the rough <br />graded Wolf Creek spoils to the south. Once the Sage Creek seam is removed from the pit, the dragline will <br />proceed to mine the deeper Wolf Creek seam. This sequence will continue until the northern limit of the <br />mining block is reached, whereby final reclamation activities will commence. <br />All mining is expected to be completed by early 2006 when reclamation of all facilities will commence, unless <br />a bonafide request is made by the landowner to retain certain facilities and the Division approves such a <br />request. Such a request has been made for Sediment Pond 005, 006 (Tab 16), and a portion of Haul Road <br />G. The Mine Entrance Haul Road, up to the junction with Haul Road A and the Oil Well Access Road, <br />is designated as Routt County Road 53C and, consequently, will be left as a permanent feature. SCC <br />is also requesting that Sediment Pond 017, Haul Road A, the remaining portion of Haul Road G, a portion <br />of Haul Roads J, K and L, the Oil Well Road, the Coal Carriers Access Road, and the Ridgeline Raad <br />be retained after mining. Prior to the completion of mining in 2008, and as required by Stipulation 32 to <br />TR No. 42, SCC will submit a complete technical revision demonstrating that all roads requested to be <br />retained meet the requirements of 4.03.1 (1)(f), or 4.03.2 (1)(g), as applicable. These demonstrations <br />will include the draft letter and signed forms approved by the CDMG as part of Stipulation 32 in their <br />December 22, 2003 letter regarding outstanding concerns on TR-05. In addition, SCC will submit a <br />complete technical revision demonstrating that sediment ponds 005, 006 and 017, or any other pond <br />that may be requested in the future, meet the requirements of 4.05.9(13) for permanent <br />impoundments. Exhibit 20-2 shows the location of these proposed postmining facilities. <br /> <br />PR-05 10 Revised 01/06 <br />