PERMFILE61093

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 7/15/2002
• Doc Name: Letter with attached Condition No. 48
• From: MCC
• To: USFS
• Section_Exhibit Name: Exhibit 80 Drilling Activities - TR96
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Mountain Coal Company L.L.C.
West Elk Mine
United State Forest Service (USFS)
Accidental Ignition Emergency Plan
(Fire Prevention and Suppression Plan)
Gunnison Nafional Forest
Mountain Coal Company L.L.C. herein shall be the "Operator"
Purpose: The Operator maintains and operates equipment and is currently requesting permission to drill
Methane Drainage Wells on USFS Lands situated in Gurnison County, Colorado, in the Gunnison
National Forest. MCC has responsibilities for fire prevention and suppression regazding previous Findings
of No Significant Impacts (FONSI) and Decision Notices (DN). The purpose of this plan is to implement
the provisions of the USFS documents and to establish a fire prevention and suppression plan.
1. Operator will do everything reasonable within its power and shall require its employees,
.contractors, and employees of contractors to do everything reasonable within their power, both
independently and upon request of the Forest Service to prevent and suppress fires on or near the
lands to be occupied under this plan. In case of fire suppressed by MCC, the operator shall report
its occurrence to the Forest Service immediately. In order to complete this contact, the USFS
Montrose Dispatch at [phone] or the USFS Paonia District Office at [phone], will
be called and otherwise notified. MCC is responsible for all suppression costs for any fire
resulting from his operations or those of his contractors or subcontractors.
2. Operator is responsible to insure that each employee, subcontractor, or any other individual or
company working on the project site is aware of the provisions of this fire prevention and
suppression plan, is familiar with the location and proper use of fire fighting equipment, and
conducts themselves in a fire-safe manner.
3. No material shall be disposed of by burning in open fires during the closed season established
by law or regulation, or during periods of high to extreme fire danger, without a written permit
from the Forest Service. Additional restrictions may apply depending on forest conditions (i.e.,
Stage 1, 2, and 3 restrictions).
4. Exhaust systems of vehicles shall have an acceptable muffler and shall be in proper working
condition. All motorized equipment and machinery shall be equipped with spazk arresters.
5. Fire extinguishers: Type ABC : One 201b. per pickup, and one 201b. per each drill rig &
trucks over 1 T. GV W. One 201b. per dozer, motor patrol, scraper, or other Earthmoving
equipment while in operation.
6. MCC shall provide a fire box trailer complete with 4 each-axes, 4each-long-handles shovels, 4
each-picks, and 4 each-5 gal emergency water.
7. Vehicles and earthmoving equipment will be pazked only in disturbed areas.
8. Smoking is allowed only in enclased vehicles and enclosed cabs of earthmoving equipment on
USFS Lands.