ENFORCE25943

• Permit No: C1994082
• IBM Index Class Name: Enforcement
• Doc Date: 4/27/1998
• Doc Name: INTERNAL MEMO VACATION OF NOV FOR YOAST MINE
• From: DMG
• To: MIKE LONG
• Violation No.: CV1998002
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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S Coal Company Seneca Coal Company
April 24, 1998 RECEIVE[?
Mr. Michael Long
Division of Minerals and Geology
1313 Sherman Street, Room 215
Denver, CO 80203-2273
liE: Yoast Mine, Permit C-94-082, NOV No
Dear Mr. Long:
APR 2 7 1998
Division of Minerals b Geology
CV-98-002
In response to the NOV No. CV-98-002 for the Yoast Mine, Seneca
Coal Company respectfully submits the following information with
regard to the violation. we believe that based on several
previous phone conversations with your staff and the April 7t h
inspection at the mine that this NOV should be vacated.
The NOV was issued on March 5th for (a) failure to construct the
haul road within the standards of vertical alignment, which state
that the maximum pitch grade should not be steeper than 158, and
that there should not be more than 300 feet of pitch grade
exceeding 108 within any consecutive 1000 feet and in no case
should the grade be steeper than 158, and (b) failure to
construct haul road in accordance with approved plan and with
horizontal alignment as consistent with existing topography as
possible and providing the alignment required to meet the
performance standards of 4.03.1. The violation applied to the
southernmost portion of Haul Road B between stations 56+00 and
62+00 and was issued following the submittal of Technical
Revision 09, the as-built reports and drawings for Haul Roads A
and B.
Seneca received the NOV on March 9th and immediately telephoned
Mr. Larry Routten and Mr. Jim Burnell to discuss the violation in
detail. They were told to review correspondence which I submitted
to the Division regarding the Haul Road A and B as-built
certifications on the following dates: November 22, 1996, March
11, 1997 and November 4, 1997. Seneca submitted Minor Revision 08
to the Division, which was subsequently approved on August 26,
1996. A portion of this revision modified the original design for
Haul Road B. The final 0.5 miles of original haul road was
removed and the ending point for the haul road was relocated
closer to the coal recovery area. The horizontal alignment of the
final 600 feet of Haul Road B was also shifted from the original
designed location. This approved revision addresses part (b) of
the violation since the Division was aware of the modified
portions of Haul Road B, which were identified in the violation.
Seneca Coal Company • P.O. Drawer D • Hayden, Colorado 81639
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