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• measures at the coal crushing handling and loadout facilities have <br />been approved by the Colorado Department of Health, Air Pollution <br />Control Division. <br />Colowyo maintains several areas for coal storage near the shop <br />facilities and also near the Gossard Loadout. Inactive storage <br />piles have been sloped, compacted and sealed with a chemical <br />crusting agent to prevent wind erosion and spontaneous combustion. <br />If coal dust becomes troublesome in the active coal storage piles, <br />a mobile water truck with a high pressure pump and nozzle is <br />available for dust suppression. <br />No thermal dryers are used in the coal crushing and handling <br />facilities. <br />Disturbance <br />Colowyo, in as much as practical, minimizes the area of land <br />disturbed at any one time. Topsoil is removed only to the extent <br />necessary to accommodate the mining operations. Through the mine <br />plan, the rehandling of both topsoil and overburden is kept to a <br />• minimum. Reclamation of disturbed areas will commence as <br />contemporaneously as possible. <br />As necessary, a mobile water truck will be assigned to work in <br />topsoil or overburden removal operations to keep any dusty <br />conditions under control. Planting of special windbreak vegetation <br />in the permit area is not planned. <br />Blasting <br />Sequential blasting is utilized as a standard practice to reduce <br />the amount of unconfined particulate matter produced. <br />Complete blasting information is set forth in Section 2.05.3 and <br />Sections 4.08.1 through 4.08.6. <br /> <br />2.05-64 <br />