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Mr. Robert Liddle -2- August 23, 1984 AREAS A AND C' These areas involve deposits of coal and interbedded sands which will require material excavation by machine. The plan has been broken into nine categories, according to the items defined by the Division. Those categories are restated, with our proposed plan comments following each category. 1. Boundaries of areas to be affected, including access routes. Refer to the areas designated A and C' on the attached map. Separate access routes will be required for entry into those two areas, and those access routes are designated on the attached map. Note that the surface encompassing Areas A, B, B', C, and C' all are on U. S. Steel Corporation's surface. 2. Equipment to be used. The fleet of equipment that could be required to remove the coal and sand material could include a dozer, a front-end loader with an approx- imate 2 YD3 bucket, an approximate 10-ton truck, and a back-hoe. Blue Ribbon visualizes, at this time, four options of using the equip- ment. (a) A dozer could be used to pile up the material with a loader picking up and carrying the material, in 2 YD3 increments, across the designated access routes to the main road. (b) A dozer could be used to pile up the material, with the 2 YD3 loader loading material into the 10-ton truck for haulage off the designated area, using the access routes. (c) The loader could pick up the material and transport it across the access area. (d) A loader could be used to pick up the material and dump it into the 10-ton truck for haulage off the area. In any of these options, a back-hoe could be an additional requirement in order to clean portions of the designated stream buffer zone by reaching and bringing back that material into the areas designated A and C' . 3. Timing and sequence of events. The reclamation work would be performed in three phases. Phase I is expected to require one week for removal of vegetation and any other material not suitable for Blue Ribbon's intent of disposing of the coal and interbedded sand material with other underground development waste. Phase II would consist of the actual excavation of the coal and inter- bedded sand material. Blue Ribbon has allowed four weeks to perform this work. Phase III is planned as the planting phase to repair and re-establish the riparian vegetation; one week has been estimated for that task. A target date of November 16, 1984 has been set for com- pletion of this reclamation work in Hubbard Creek. Working backwards to establish a schedule, October 8th is the proposed date to begin Phase I, October 15th the date to begin Phase II, and November 12th the date to begin Phase III. Allowing for some minimum delays, Blue Ribbon asks the Division to establish an actual deadline for the project of November 30, 1984.