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<br /> <br />FUGITIVE PARTICULATE EMISSIONS CONTROL PLAN <br />SOMERSET MINING COMPANY <br />MARCH 27, 1991 <br />INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND <br />In response to complaints from citizens living in Somerset, the <br />Colorado Air Pollution Control Division (APCD) requested that the <br />Somerset Mining Company prepare a fugitive dust control plan. The thrust <br />of the plan would be to reduce fugitive dust emissions from the haul <br />road, crusher/screen/transfer points, storage pile and train load-out <br />facilities located in Somerset. In response to the APCD request, this <br />document presents a plan to mitigate the fugitive particulate emissions. <br />IDENTIFICATION OF PROBLEM <br />A review of the facility operations within Somerset revealed several <br />possibilities for dust releases from the site. Four such sources were: <br />1 ) the train load-out silo, 2 ) the crusher, screen and belt transfer <br />points, 3) the coal surge pile, and 4) the coal truck haul road. Each <br />of the four sources identified for dust control are discussed below. The <br />mitigation measures for each are included. <br />TRUCK HAUL ROAD <br />The current operation of the train load-out facility has coal <br />arriving by truck; portions of this road are not paved and are sources <br />of fugitive dust. In addition, the possibility of "tracking" dust onto <br />the paved highway also exists. Coal falling off the trucks as they turn <br />into the facility has been expressed as a problem. <br />The haul truck dump utilizes bottom dump trucks into an underground <br />facility; this source was considered minor due to its method of operation <br />and was therefore not included in the fugitive dust control plan. <br />