REV92480

• Permit No: C1981071
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 8/25/1987
• Doc Name: CYPRUS YAMPA VALLEY COAL CORP PN C-81-071 TR APPLICATION 87-12 PROPOSED PERMANENT ROADS
• From: MLRD
• To: DAN MATHEWS
• Type & Sequence: TR12
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Rule 4.03.1 "Haul Roads", subsection (7) states:
"(7) Reclamation
(a) Unless the Division a roves retention of haul
roads as suitable or tea rove ostminin an use,
imme late y a ter t e roa is no onger nee a or operations,
reclamation, or monitoring:
(i) The road shall be closed to vehicular
traffic;
(ii) The natural-drainage patterns shall be
restored;
(iii) All bridges and culverts shall be removed;
(iv) Roadbeds shall be ripped, plowed, and
scarified;
(v) Fill slopes shall be rounded or reduced
and shaped to conform the site to adjacent terrain and to meet
natural-drainage restoration standards;
(vi) Cut slopes shall be shaped to blend with
the natural contour;
(vii) Terraces shall be constructed as necessary
to prevent excessive erosion and to provide long-term stability in
cut-and-fill slopes; and
(viii) The regraded area shall be covered with
topsoil in accordance with 4.06.4(2) and revegetated in accordance
with 4.15.
(b) Unless otherwise authorized by the Division, all
road-surfacing materials shall be removed, hauled or conveyed, and
disposed under 4.11.4."
Rule 2.05.5 "Postmining Land Uses" subsection (1) "Surface Coal Mining
Activities" states:
(a) Each plan shall contain a detailed narrative of
the proposed use, following reclamation of the land within the
proposed permit area. In accordance with land use categories
established in the narrative, the plan shall include a discussion
of the utility and capacity of the reclaimed land to support a
variety of alternative uses, and the relationship of the proposed
use to existing land use policies and plans. This description
shall explain:
(i) How the proposed postmining land use is to
be achieved and the necessary support activities which may be
needed to achieve the proposed land use;
(ii) Where a land use different form the
premining land use is proposed, alt materials needed for approval
of the alternative use under 4.16;
(iii) The consideration which has beengiven to
making all of the nrooosed~ace- co mining an~recl-amation
o eratlons consistent with surface owner Tans antl rograms; antl
T e escription s a a accompame y a copy
of the comments concerning the proposed use by the legal or
equitable owner of record of the surface of the proposed permit
area and the State and local government agencies which would have
to initiate, implement, approve, or authorize the proposed use of
the land following reclamation.
(c) A map prepared to the standards of 2.10 shall
accompany the plan."