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borrow areas, and spillway for sites located down drainage of mining actiwtiesl, haul roads, access <br />roads, mining area lincludes box cut spoil and highwall reduction area, spoil and waste stockpile areas. <br />coal stockpile area. office and shop area, explosive storage area, and diversion ditchesl. Soil will be <br />removed from all cut and fill slopes. No soil will be salvaged from the light use roads utilized for <br />environmental monitoring or power Ilne corridors, except where cut and fills are required. Prior to soil <br />removal, vegetation which is too large for incorporation into the soil will be scraped away and usually <br />combined with [he overburden. Occasionally, the vegetation will be transported to final graded slopes <br />and placed in either brush piles or shrub islands throughout the reclamation. The remaining vegetation <br />will be incorporated into the soil to help increase soil organic matter levels. To prevent unnecessary <br />contamination and loss due to sloughing, soil shall be salvaged a minimum of 5 to 15 feet from the <br />edge of a road, end of a pi[, embankment, ditch, cu[ slope, and toe of fill. Soil shall also be salvaged <br />up to 100 feet beyond the active pit to protect the soil resource from being contaminated during <br />blasting, benching, drilling, and other mining activities, Soil will typically be salvaged about 500 to <br />750 feet in advance of the active pit during late summer and early tall to provide an adequate buffer <br />during the winter months. <br />Soil will be removed by using self-loading scrapers, push scrapers, or other rubber tired equipment. A <br />dozer or road grader will also be used when needed to assist scraper loading, to facilitate maximum <br />soil recovery, and to help build and shape soil stockpiles. Where soil exists on a steep slope and <br />where there is enough room for scrapers to maneuver at the bottom of that slope, soil will be removed <br />by being pushed downhill with a dozer, picked up with scrapers, then stockpiled or transferred directly <br />to final graded areas. In other steep slope situations, soil removed by dozers will be pushed outside of <br />the soil disturbance area and stored in approved stockpiles at the bottom of that slope. Lastly, in final <br />pit highwall reduction and first pit boxcut spoil areas, along Haul Road A and at pond construction <br />sites, soil removed by dozers will be pushed outside the soil disturbance area and stored temporarily <br />Iless than one year) in furrows. This soil will either be respread over adjacent final graded slopes or <br />will be transported to an approved stockpile site. <br />A one-lift soil handling operation will be used for all soil map units within the projected disturbance <br />area. This method of soil removal is desirable because the soils are either shallow ISplitrol, moderately <br />deep IWinevadal, or deep ICoutis and Silasl, and <br />• <br />t g Revised 2199 <br />