GENERAL32791

• Permit No: C1996083
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 1/15/2002
• Doc Name: PROPOSED DECISION & FINDINGS OF COMPLIANCE FOR PR6
• From: Construct Unit Train Loadout & Increase to 6 million tons/year
• Permit Index Doc Type: FINDINGS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Table of Contents
Introduction ...................................................................................................................................1
Proposed Decision .........................................................................................................................3
Surnmary .......................................................................................................................................5
The Review Process ..........................................................................................................5
Description of the Environment ..................................................................11
Description of the Operation and Reclamation Plans .....................................................16
Findings of the Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology .....................................................19
Section A -Rule 2.07.6 ............................................................................................. ......19
Section B -Rule 4 .................................................................................................... .......24
I. Roads ................................................................................................ .......24
II. Support Facilities ............................................................................... ......26
III. Hydrologic Balance .......................................................................... .......26
N. Topsoil .............................................................................................. .......29
V. Sealing of Drilled Holes and Underground Openings ...................... ......30
VI. Use of Explosives ............................................................................. .......30
VII. Disposal of Excess Spoil .................................................................. .......30
VIII. Coal Mine Waste Banks ................................................................... .......30
D{. Coal Mine Waste .............................................................................. .......31
X. Backfilling and Grading ................................................................... .......31
XI. Revegetation ..................................................................................... .......31
XII. Post-mining Land Use ....................................................................... ......32
XIII. Protection of Fish, Wildlife and Related Environmental Values ..... .......32
XN. Protection of Underground Mining .................................................. .......33
XV. Subsidence Control .......................................................................... .......33
XVI. Concurrent Surface and Underground Mining ................................. .......33
XVII. Operations on Alluvial Valley Floors .............................................. .......33
XVIII. Operations on Prime Farmland ........................................................ .......34
XUY. Mountaintop Removal ...................................................................... .......34
XX. Operations on Steep Slopes .............................................................. .......34
XXI. in Situ Processing ............................................................................. .......34
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