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If unavoidable hazardous conditions occur, (e.g., electrical storms, misfires, personnel <br />sickness or injury, equipment breakdown), appropriate actions will be taken in accordance <br />with all applicable parts ofthe regulations. <br />Oakridge Energy, Inc., will endeavor to practice every safety precaution with respect to <br />the storage, handling, and use of explosives. The State, M.S.H.A, and other federal <br />regulations will be complied with. <br />2.05.3(7) Coal Handling Structures <br />The structures associated with coal handling have been identified and discussed previously <br />in this permit. These structures include two raw coal stockpiles and an in-pit staging area <br />with crusher/screener equipment. Raw coal which requires ash removal or other cleaning <br />will be screened, crushed and separated in the pit. Coal not requiring ash removal will be <br />tracked duectly to the staging azea. The staging azea will be used for surge capacity and <br />blending for the customer. The coal will be trucked from the pit azea to the staging azea <br />where it will be transported on highway trucks to markets. <br />2.05.3(8) Coal Processing Waste <br />Any coal processing waste will be kept within the confines of the pit or returned to the pit. <br />No refuse or coal processing waste will be impounded and no coal refuse or reject will <br />accumulate outside of the pit. The test for coal reject were performed by Core Labs, Inc. <br />in Denver, Colorado (Appendix 4-3). Quality analysis of typical coal reject to be returned <br />to the pit has been included in Table 4-1. <br />The processing waste analysis indicates that sulfur may be present in vazious forms but in <br />low quantities, i.e. two to three percent (2 to 3%). This low quantity is not expected to be <br />acid forming because it is not acid fornung in the coal seams. Note, the analysis of the <br />groundwater samples in Appendix 4-3A. <br />No slurry ponds or wash slurries aze proposed as a part of the mining in this plan. No coal <br />fines aze expected to be generated as a part of the mining activity. The coal fines, as they <br />exist in the coal seams, aze neither acid nor toxic forming. If pit dewatering is necessary, <br />the water will be pumped to Pond No. 1 and dischazged in compliance with the NPDES <br />Pemut. <br />The sulfur content of the coals and their associated over and underlying strata, range <br />between one and three percent. Abandoned coal mine records for the Durango, Colorado <br />azea document no problems with acid mine waters and burned spoil piles. Both of these <br />facts indicate that the coal processing wastes, which will be generated by the Cazbon <br />Junction Mine, have a limited potential to beacid-forming and have no reasonable <br />probability of being combustible when placed in the overburden. <br />TR08, TRI1 (v1.0) 5-27 Revised 9197, 08/02 <br />