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-10- DESCRIPTION OF THE OPERATION AND RECLAMATION PLAN The Orchard Valley Mine is an existing underground mine which has been in operation since 1975. There are three major disturbed areas within the permit boundary. The original portals east of Steven's Gulch are the site of the main offices, crushing and screening facilities, storage and warehouse areas. The Orchard Valley West Mine portals on East Roatcap Creek are adjoined by a small maintenance facility, ventilation shaft and water tank. The coal loadout facilities are located adjacent to the North Fork of the Gunnison River along State Highway 133. The Orchard Valley West Mine (OVWM) portal facilities in East Roatcap Creek enable CWI to access the reserves that were cut off due to the fire at the main portals. Mining will occur west of the main mine during the current, five-year mine plan. Subsequent mining will join with the original mine. The general direction of mining has been and will continue to be northward to extract coal from the "D" seam. The coal will move from the mining face via teletram to afeeder-breaker and then out of the mine via conveyor belt to a surge bin and truck loading facility. The coal is then trucked to storage silos and a railroad loadout facility where it is loaded onto trains for shipment to market. Rock tunnel construction to connect the main mine facilities with the West Mine has been approved by the Division and may be built at an undisclosed, future date. This would preclude coal trucking from the OVWM portals. The current production rate ranges between 300,000 and 500,000 tons per year during this five-year permit term. Should economic conditions improve, CWI is permitted to produce 1.5 million tons per year, with appropriate mine plan revisions. The mine uses the room and pillar method of extracting coal. Most of the surface facilities are existing structures that will remain in their present state for the life of mine. The only major area of active, ongoing, final reclamation will occur at the waste rock disposal area. As portions of this pile are completed, final regrading, retopsoiling and revegetation will occur. At the conclusion of mining, the portals will be sealed, all surface facilities will be removed, the mine benches will be recontoured, the loadout will be regraded to approximate original contour, and all areas will be revegetated in accordance with the approved postanining land use and revegetation plan.