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Mountain Coal Company Exhibit 69 <br />.. West Elk Mine Sylvester Gulch Facilities <br />Distribution Road <br />A 1400 foot light use road, at an average grade of 7.5%, for distribution power line <br />maintenance access will be built from the substation southwazd connecting to the <br />shaft site hauUaccess road before it crosses Sylvester Gulch. Total excavation for <br />this road will be approximately 14,500 cubic yards of which 3,000 cubic yazds is <br />topsoil which will be salvaged and stockpiled. Total fill will be 4,800 cubic yazds, <br />which will be provided from excavated material. Surplus excavated material will be <br />used for fill at other road locations. <br />Electric Borehole Road <br />A 2,100 foot light-use road, at an average grade of 7.5%, will access the electric <br />borehole location from the southeast end of the shafts site construction laydown <br />bench. Total excavation for this road and pad will be 40,400 cubic yards of which <br />7,000 cubic yards is topsoil which will be salvaged and stockpiled. Total fill will be <br />19,500 cubic yards, which will be provided from excavated material. Surplus <br />excavated material from the site will be used for fill at other road locations. <br />Construction Schedule for Ventilation Shafts #1 and #2 <br />Construction of the Shafts #1 and #2 and permanent facilities at the shafts site will <br />commence after the drainage sediment control features, benches, roads and other facilities <br />outlined previously aze in place. Construction of temporary facilities by the contractor will <br />include construction/hoisting equipment, supply storage, water storage, electrical <br />switchgeaz and temporary bath house/office facilities. These facilities will be located on all <br />three benches within the sediment control azea. The contractor wiil begin excavating the <br />intake shag soil material down to bedrock and temporarily stockpile this subsoil material <br />on the far west bench. This material will be removed periodically by haul truck to a subsoil <br />storage pile located near the new substation. The total volume of subsoil is approximately <br />8,000 cu. yds. from both shafts. <br />The contractor will then install a concrete lining from the bedrock up to the surface and <br />construct the collar pad mentioned previously. Following this the contractor will install <br />equipment in the intake shaft necessary to begin excavation of the rock/coal material from <br />bedrock down through the B Seam coal bed (approximately 650 feet). Excavation will <br />require drilling, blasting and removal of the broken material using hoisting equipment. The <br />broken material will be transported from the imake shaft to the faz west bench and <br />temporarily stockpiled. MCC will remove this stockpiled material periodically and <br />transport the waste rock to the refuse pile and coal to the Run-of--Mine stacktube piles at <br />the present West Elk Mine surface facilities for processing. The contractor will install a <br />15" thick concrete lining concurrent with excavation of the intake shaft. <br /> <br />11 Nav. 1996 PR07R; Revised May l997MR1l6; <br />RevisedJuL /997MR219 <br />