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• The facilities found on the surface, including the office and shop <br />buildings, will be completely removed following mining activities, <br />providing they have no continuing beneficial uses. Materials resulting <br />from this removal will either be sold to a local scrap dealer or hauled <br />from the permit area to a suitable dump site. The areas will then be <br />regraded and revegetated. The access road from County Road 120 to the <br />portal area will be revegetated at the conclusion of mining activities. <br />The access road, when no longer needed for operations, reclamation, or <br />environmental monitoring, will be restored. The roadbed will be rounded <br />and shaped to conform with the adjacent terrain and to meet natural <br />drainage restoration standards. At the completion of this regrading, <br />revegetation will commence. <br />Backfillinq and Soil Stabilization <br />All areas affected by the surface facilities within the permit area will <br />be returned to a final surface configuration that closely resembles the <br />• land surface prior to mining. This configuration will conform to the <br />drainage pattern of the surrounding terrain. The existing topography is <br />shown do the Vegetation Map (Map 3). The anticipated post-mining <br />topography is shown on the Post-Mining Topography Map (Map 9). <br />The final grading in all areas will be done along the contour, unless <br />site specific slope conditions would cause a safety hazard to the <br />operator. The final surface configuration will approximate the overall <br />pre-mining topography. Following grading, all disturbed areas will blend <br />in with the undisturbed areas outside the limit of the affected area. <br />Portal Areas. Because the location for the Peacock Portals has been <br />previously affected by past mining, no changes will be necessary by <br />Sunbelt in order to prepare the site for resumed mining. In the canyon <br />areas of Hay Gulch, the steep topography resembles in many places what <br />could be called a "natural highwall". The planned post-mining surface <br />landscape of the portal face-up far the Peacock Coal Mine will blend <br />. into and complement that existing topography. <br />2.05-27 <br />