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<br />County and the town of Paonia in previous analysis. The Sylvester Gulch Road is <br />currently under construction. <br />B. Oversize vehicles such as the drill rig and semi trucks would access from the west via <br />Minnesota Creek Road in Delta County. Gunnison County Road 710, and NFSRs <br />710.711. <br />C. All project traffic would also use the existing life-of--mine administrative access roads <br />known as the West Flatiron Road, Long Draw Saddle (and Extension), and NFSRs 710, <br />711, 771.2A and 711. 2B. <br />D. Eighteen miles of road construction or reconstruction between existing reads and new <br />drill pads would occur. Two and one-half (2.5) of these miles are in the West Elk IRA. <br />Approximate access disturbance is up to 65 acres (9 acres in the West Elk IRA) over 12 <br />years. These roads would be for project and administrative use only, and would not be <br />available for public use. These mileages would be decommissioned by obliteration after <br />project use. <br />E. An existing life-of--mine (i.e. to 2030) administrative access road in the SE 1/4 Section <br />27, T 13S, R 90W would be re-routed to mitigate existing resource and maintenance <br />problems due to geologic hazards, sedimentation and slope steepness. The existing <br />administrative access road would be decommissioned by obliteration upon construction <br />of the re-route. The existing access mute and proposed re-route are both in the West Elk <br />IRA. The re-route is about 0.6 miles, and would decrease the mileage of the existing <br />route by 0.6 miles. The re-route would be decommissioned by obliteration at the end of <br />mine life (about 2030). The re-route would be for on-lease activity and administrative use <br />only, and would not he available for public use. <br />Methane Drainage Well Installation, Operation and Reclamation: <br />• Drilling and casing of up to 154 methane drainage wells located on up to 132 pads. <br />Approximate total pad and road construction disturbance is up to 170 acres over (2 years. <br />About 18 of the 170 acres are in the West Elk IRA. <br />• Installing passive and/or active degassing equipment on each of the methane <br />drainage wells. <br />• Operating and maintaining wells for ventilation of the mine. <br />• Interim reclamation of mud pits, arid seeding and mulching ofout-slopes and cut- <br />slopes. <br />• Plugging drill holes and performing final reclamation on roads and pads when <br />drill holes are no longer performing their intended purpose. The estimated life of <br />each methane drainage well is 3 years, construction would span 12 years and <br />reclamation would span approximately 12 years. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Cl <br />