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-50- l(V. MINE FACILITIES, PONDS, IMPOUNDMENTS, DIVERSIONS, AND COAL A. Mine Facilities and Coal Handling Structures 4.05 The mine facilities at the Orchard Palley Mine are predominately located in three areas--the main mine, the Orchard Valley West Mine (OVWM), and the train loadout. Four other miscellaneous structures are found within the permit area. They include the guard shack on Steven's Gulch Road, the 500,000 gallon water tank and well house at the Steven's Gulch wellfield, the timber storage area west of Steven's Gulch, and the OVWM pipeline. These facilities are described in Section 2.05, and maps are found in Yolume 8A. The main mine facilities are located east of Steven's Gulch Road. Facilities include the office/bath house building, the warehouse and shop, a crushing and screening building, a transfer tower, conveyor structures, and a truck loading station. Two water tanks (100,000 gallon and 200,000 gallon) are found on the north end of the disturbed area. In addition a fueling area, a sewer plant and training trailer are found at the site. At same future date, CWI plans to construct two or three rock slope tunnels to access the mine workings. Facilities are the OYWM include three portals, a warehouse, shop, fueling station and rock dust tank. A substation provides a power linkage to the mine. A 200,000 gallon water tank and ventilation shaft lie one-quarter mile north of the portal cut. The train loadout includes a scale, a truck dump, three silos, two conveyors, and a loadout building linked to a rail spur. A small shop, sewage treatment and substation are also located at the site. All facilities and coal handling structures are in compliance with the rules and regulations. B. Roads The Orchard Valley mine road system consists of two haul roads and multiple access roads. At the main mine facilities area, there is one paved haul road leading from security post No. 1 at the turn-off from the Steven's Gulch road to the crushing and screening bench; an access road leading from the crushing and screening bench up to the warehouse area, portal bench and fan bench, and two lower access roads which lead to the existing waste disposal pile and sedimentation ponds 1-4. The mine site haul road and access roads were constructed prior to the enactment of SMCRA and the Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining, and at that time the haul and access road embankments and road cuts were not constructed according to the specifications set forth in Rule 4.03. Alternative specifications may be authorized by the Division if the applicant can demonstrate through appropriate geotechnical analysis that the existing road embankments have a minimum safety factor of 1.25, and that the road cuts ave a minimum safety factor of 1.5 or that a lessor safety factor will n t result in significant environmental harm or harm to the public health or safety (4.03.1 (3) (c) (i) and (3) (d) (ix ), and 4.03.2 (3) (C) (i) and (3)(d)(ix)).