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Description of the Operation and Reclamation Plans <br />Detailed information regarding the operation and reclamation plans fo'r, the.Bowie No. 2 Mine is <br />presented in Section 2.05 of the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit applicatioridocument. Section 2.05 of <br />the permit also contains numerous references to maps and other infozaiation related to the Bowie <br />No. 2 Mine operations and reclamation plans, which are contained in various sections of the <br />permit application document binders. The following sunxnary,is derived from he information <br />presented in the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit application documerifi <br />,' <br />The Bowie No. 2 Mine is a coal mine, and coal has been extracted irsxig the-room and pillar <br />mining method. Retreat mining of `some of these sectrohS' has o~cured: Approval of Permit <br />Revision No. 3 allowed the mining method to change to ~angwatf;mining: lvlining is currently <br />being conducted only in the D-2 coal seam. Approval of Permit Revision No. 7 would allow for <br />the construction of support facilities in order to mine the B=? coal seam. The mine plan approval <br />to mine the B-2 seam is being sought through Permit Revision Na.`8: <br />The D-2 coal seam has been accessed from three (3) entries which were constructed at an <br />elevation of 6880 feet above sea level. This is the elevation where the D-2 coal seam generally <br />outcrops, within the Bowie No. 2 permit area, and this elevation is approximately 800 feet above <br />the old State Highway 133. The main entries have been driven down-dip to the north, with the <br />sub-mains being driven east and west from the mains. <br />The B-2 coal seam will also be accessed through three (3) mine entries, proposed in Permit <br />Revision No. 7. The B-2 coal seam adits will be located below and just to the east of the D-2 coal <br />seam adits, at an approximate elevation of 6630 feet. <br />Currently, total annual coal production has been capped at 6 million tonsper yeaz. <br />The mine facilities have been constmcted near the old Bowie towusife: Construction has <br />occurred to develop haul and access roads, a conveyor belt system, mina and facility benches, <br />vent shags, a truck loadout facility, a refuse pile, and various drainage and sediment control <br />facilities. Approval of Permit Revision No. 3 added a downhill conveyor, coal stockpile and coal <br />haul truck loading system to the facilities. In addition, the mine site entrance was relocated to the <br />east of the original entrance. Coal was being exported from the truck loadout facility onto old <br />State Highway 133 and, then, to the Bowie No. 1 Mine train loadout. However, approval of <br />Permit Revision No. 6 permitted the construction of a unit train loadout. Coal now travels by <br />covered conveyor line from the D-2 coal seam portal bench, through the downhill conveyor line <br />to the coal stockpile at the bottom of the hill and, then, to the unit train loadout. In Pemut <br />Revision No. 7, the operator proposes to use haul trucks to bring coal from the B-2 coal seam <br />portal bench up to the beginning point of the conveyor line on the D-2 coal seam portal bench. <br />From there, the B-2 coal will travel through the conveyor line system to the unit train loadout. <br />A drainage and sediment control system has been constmcted. The system consists of ditches, <br />culverts, sedimentation ponds and alternate sediment control azeas referred to as "small azea <br />exemptions". Specific details regarding the designs for these systems aze presented in Section <br />17 <br />