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A refuse haul road has been constructed between the D-Portal area and the waste disposal area. Culverts are located where necessary to minimize changes in the existing drainage pattern. Water and a chemical stabilizer(e.g. magnesium chloride) are used to reduce dust along the road. I.B.4 Temporary Coal Lavdown Area The Deserado Mine caught on fire underground on January 31, 1996. The working districts of the D-Seam had to be sealed. In order to satisfy interim needs of the Bonanza Station, about 60,000 tons of coal per month were purchased from the Colowyo Mine. The coal was trucked to a laydown area constructed near the transfer station #2 and reclaimed by a stacker conveyor to the overland conveyor no. 3 (CNV3). This temporary measure lasted through April, 1997 while a new longwall system was being made operational. The site includes a pond to contain a 25-year, 24-hour event and 900 feet of access road. BME plans to maintain the temporary coal laydown area as a contingency until the end of the project. This will avoid the potential for future disturbanceshould anotherfailure in the coal supply occur. I.C. Auxiliary Facilities The major disturbed areas consist of the Ventilation Entries (also referred to as East Exhaust Portal), the D Portal area, the Refuse Disposal area, the Railroad Loadout area and the B-Seam ventilation shaft facility. In order to effectively develop the Ventilation Entries site, the old Staley tipple building was dismantled by outside contractors. All metal (steel and tin) was hauled off site and disposed of by the contractor. Concrete footings and foundations were left in place. During excavation/grading, the grade was brought up to a level even with the concrete foundations so there would be no problems passing over the foundations in vehicles. The material storage site was located near the entrance to the old Staley Gordon Mine. The entries at this location were sealed in the Spring of 2000 with site cleanup continuing throughoutthe year and final regrading and reclamation scheduled by Spring 2001. Due to previous contamination and misuse by the Staley Gordon Mine, there is no suitable topsoil in the area to be saved. A dozer was used to level the space and form a berm for sediment control at the low elevation of the site. The D Portal area surface facilities, Map 15, include a building which was previously used as an Administration Building (now used for slorage), the Mine Service Buildings which houses the administration, engineering, safety and operations personnel and the employee bathhouse-lunchroom Rio Banco County Special Use PermitiF81-1 Exhibit B -Mining Plan September2000 17