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were generally drill seeded the first fall planting season following completion of topsoil spreading. Reclamation of pit areas was concurrent with mining. At the end of mining, all facilities and structures with the exception of the Wadge, PeCoCo, and Northwest Impoundment, Pond 004 and Pond 008 which aze approved as permanent impoundments, will be removed. All final pit highwalls were reduced and the entire disturbed area regraded, As described in this document, SCC is retaining twelve stock ponds as permanent structures. All disturbed azeas were regraded, topsoil was replaced, and vegetation was reestablished. Mine-related facilities include the office, bath house, warehouse and repair building, maintenance building, welding shop, fuel storage, truck wash bay, explosives storage containers, and the wazehouse yard. Mine-related structures include sedimentation ponds, diversion ditches, and culverts. Water usage at the site is limited to dust suppression, maintenance, and domestic use. Water used in maintenance and dust suppression activities is withdrawn from sedimentation ponds on site. Water used for domestic purposes issupplied by an on-site well. Seneca Coal Company has secured water rights for all water usage and for replacement in the event that off-site water supplies aze damaged or depleted. Initially, non-coal waste was disposed of in the final pit of the Wadge mining area (now known as the solid waste disposal area}. Materials placed in the pit were not considered hazazdous or toxic, and do not pose a threat to groundwater resources. The pit will be backfilled and completely reclaimed when no longer needed. There are two petroleum contaminated material landfarming azeas still in use; one at the solid waste disposal area and the other northwest of the PeCoCo pond. When Seneca II no longer needs to landfarm materials, the material will be disposed of in the solid waste disposal azea. 7