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Structures All structures at the portal area will be removed from the site. At the sales site, the tipple, shop/warehouse, scale building and explosives bunker will all be removed. The landowner had requested that the well and well housing, power line (owned by the local utility) and original office building (a 12-foot by 14-foot cinder block structure) remain on the site. The landowner had also requested the access road to the site remain. These features are compatible with the post-mining land use. The three concrete slabs used for storing coal will be rubblized and used to backfill the small topographic low behind the sales office area. Backfill, Grading, and Topsoil Redistribution Backfilling and grading operations are to begin in 1995. TR-07 addresses how both the portal and sales site will be backfllled and the final topographic contour will be met. There are a total of 7,900 cubic yards of fill material available for reclamation of the portal site. This material is old spoil which was removed from the mine portal bench and placed in the Lewis Gulch Fill by the operator. Two thousand cubic yards have already been utilized in the final grading of the refuse pile, and 1,200 cubic yards have been used to backfill the portals. Twelve hundred cubic yards will be stockpiled for final backfilling of the upper bench sediment pond, while 1,000 cubic yards are proposed for backfilling the Golden Quality tipple road scarp. The remaining amount, or 2,500 cubic yards, is proposed for regrading the portal bench. The upper bench will be graded with all depressions removed. All surface flow originating in this upper bench area will be diverted downslope through an energy dissipator before entering the pond at the mine portal bench level. There are only 800 cubic yards of topsoil available for use in reclaiming the portal site. This amount of topsoil will provide agproximately six inches of cover for the mine bench area. There is no other available topsoil on the site since the Golden Quality Mine disturbed the area prior to the Twin Pines No.2 Mine operation. The Coal Sales Area will be backfilled and graded using all available material to eliminate highwalls and depressions. At the sales site, only 90 cubic yards of topsoil, taken from pond construction, are available for reclamation. All other original topsoil has been disturbed by previous mine operations of the Twin Pines No. 1 Mine. Highwalls Photographic evidence submitted with the initial permit application illustrates that the highwalls at the sales site and portal site were pre-existing prior to Twin Pines No. 2 operations. In order to address this issue at the mine site, the operator will incorporate all remaining available fill material (2,500 cubic yards) from the Lewis Gulch Fill into the backfilling and grading of the portal site. The highwall on the upper bench will remain since 14