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passes over a bridge which crosses the North Fork of the Gunnison River. The road design was approved by [he Division and has been certified as being constructed as designed. A technical revision to widen the road was approved and the road was certified as being widened as designed. Bear Coal Company widened and modified the original access road to the abandoned Edwazds portals to access the Beaz No. 3 portals, and conducted semi-annual stability monitoring of the access road. The portal access road met the permanent program criteria with the approved monitoring plan. The road was reclaimed. The operaEion is in compliance with this section. II. Support Facilities -Rule 4.04 Information regarding the mine facilities of the Bear No. 3 Mine is contained in Sections 2.05.2 and 2.05.3, Exhibits 14, 19 and 24, and Map 10, of the Bear No. 3 permit application. Surface support facilities at the Beaz No. 3 Mine included an office, two warehouses, power substation, fuel transfer and storage area, conveyors, stacking tube and a truck loadout. All of those structures were dismantled and removed, except the office building. The landowner has requested, and the Division has approved, that the building be retained as part of the post-mining land use. A sedimentation pond collects runoff from the site to mitigate any adverse mining impacts to surface waters. Effluent from the pond must meet NPDES permit standards. A spring water treatment pond was constructed to treat the water coming from a spring that is located just west of the pre-law Edwazds Mine portal. The Bear Coal operation is in compliance with the provisions of this section. III. Hydrologic Balance -Rule 4.05 A. Water Quality Standards and Effluent Limitations The applicant has demonstrated that sediment ponds and/or treatment facilities will function properly to ensure that disturbed-area drainage will meet the effluent limitations of 4.05.2 and the applicable State and Federal water quality requirements for downstream receiving waters. 2. The Division proposes to grant a small area exemption from use ofsediment ponds due to the limited size of the azea and due to the fact that ponds and treatment facilities aze not necessary for the drainage to meet the effluent limitations of Rule 4.05.2 and applicable State and Federal water quality standazds for receiving streams, and also due to the fact that no mixing of surface drainage from underground workings will occur. The small area to be exempted is located along the entrance road on the west side of the entry bridge (4.05.2(3)). Technically, a 17