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CON$OLSIUiT 20N COAL CO. B CH 96-6-R <br />there era no highwalla on the property. The iacliaed elopes on <br />the eaetaYa 1Cadolph tract are part of the miss-cut lake sad are <br />allowable ae part of the design. Coaeidering the &adoiph tracts <br />in isolation, the witaeaa Claimed they mat the requirements for <br />AOC (Tr. 160-62). <br />On cross examiaatioa the witaeee stated that Consolidation <br />began building the Ditch A-1 belara the State approved it sad <br />that the ditch had bees the subject o4 a violation written is <br />1986. Permit 258 Sa a combiaati~ of three exiatiaq permits. <br />This has not yet bean approved by the State. Consolidation <br />decided to combine the permits for simpler final bond release. <br />Also, high capability lead in Permit 121 was traded to Permit <br />149. More high capability land vas restored is Permit 121 than <br />was accessary. Those acres were transferred to Permit .149.eo <br />that Consolidation could restore !ewer acres there to high <br />capability. Tha company waated.to gut fewer feet of topsoil is <br />Permit 149 to assist with the flood plaining. By combining tht <br />permits th'e pre-mixing and poet-miaiag figures will reflect the <br />satire miaiag operation as a whole (Tr. lfi5-fi7). <br />The mining dictated that tho material bn taken from the neat <br />aide of the incline to the west. The elevation oa the west was <br />higher due to the additional rock sad the depth 'of the <br />overburden. The nature of the spoil and the way it stacked up <br />required the ditch to be cut ae dneply ae it ie (Tr. 183-BS). <br />Scott Schmitm, supervisor of the Laced Roclamation Diviefoa <br />for SDMM, teatiEisd Eor thn Applicant. He testified that <br />Illinois examiaae the total pit area in its coaaidaratiaa of AOC, <br />rather thaw comsideriag ono ieolatad area such as the &ndolph <br />property (Tr. 192). The State's primary tool in ceaeidaring AOC <br />of a site ie tha pre-miaiag soils map (Applicant's Exhibit e). <br />This map provides sell tables and iaformatioa about land <br />capability and ^lopn. The tabiaa provide iaformatioa about pre- <br />miniug elope parce~atagea. The State insures that the elope <br />raagas poet-miaiag are approximately the same as those pre-miaiag <br />alopee (Tr. 195). <br />The witness belinwd OSN'^ evaluation of the Radeiph <br />property was wrong is that 0816 only eoaeidered one ieolatad spot. <br />The Ditch A-1 arcs was sot ca~mpnred to the pre-miaiag elope <br />raagas oa the r•*s~~^dar of the mina site. There Duets 10 to 18 <br />percent alopee oa the laced befors miaiag. The ditch itself is lE <br />percent to 20 peroaat slope. Tha Applicant vas required to do <br />AOC avaluatioa as part o! its parmittiag process (Tr. 196-47). <br />Ditch ~-1 is a deeper vatarway than the pre-exiatiag atreaat <br />sad the ditch is sot is the name locstioa ae the pre-existing <br />stream. 8owavar, given the deep overburden is the area, spoil <br />swell, sad pit eutalopa; the drainage would seed to trawl <br />