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<br /> <br />Two Soil. Prior to any surface disturbance, topsoil, where available, will be <br />salvaged, stockpiled, and eventually redistributed for reclamation purposes. <br />Two, 6-acre areas would be disturbed on an annual basis and would increase to <br />a maximum of 24 acres per year at full coal production. <br />Layout of the waste disposal plot is shown on map 2. Each year one plot will <br />be excavated, one plot filled, and one plot restored. Excavation procedures <br />recontouring, and reseeding requires approximately 6 weeks each so for the <br />greater part of any year only one plot will be open while another is being <br />filled. <br />Mining will be underground, therefore surface restoration in the immediate <br />mine area is a minor problem. The top soil will be redistributed over the <br />covered waste, graded, and seeded, and fertilized if necessary. <br />Vegetation. Revegetation will be with native species or adapted domesticated <br />species such as Nordan crested wheat grass, Arriba western wheat grass, and <br />Paloma Indian rice grass, shru5 and forb species. R weed free, firm seed bed <br />will be prepared and the seeds drilled where possible. <br />Visual. Where possible, buildings and other apparatus will be designed and <br />painted to blend into the cliff and desert background. <br />Restoration and Plantin Restoration for the mine is described under <br />a an onment. Gra ing and backfilling will apply only to the surface facility <br />and waste disposal area. These areas will be reseeded as described under <br />vegetation above. <br />Erosion Controls. Map 4 displays control and drainage of runoff water. The <br />0o i s area is arid to semiarid. Runoff from rain or melting snow is <br />infrequent; paving, planting, and the proposed rocked-over runoff sluice ways <br />will adequately control runoff water. <br />Map 4 also gives the drainage plan on and away from the surface facilities <br />areas. Since mining is underground, 99 percent of the surface area would not <br />be affected. <br />Utility Corridor <br />A 50-foot utility corridor paralleling 18 Road is proposed (see map 2). <br />Included in the utility system would be a power line, telephone line, natural <br />gas pipeline, a 3-acre water reservoir, and an accompanying water pipeline. <br />The power line (25,000 volt) will probably be above ground on poles; the <br />telephone line will be buried. <br />The natural gas line will be buried and will start where the existing pipeline <br />intesects the utility corridor between section 6 and 7 (see map 2). A water <br />storage reservoir will be constructed and a pumping station installed to <br />provide emergency storage and reliable water pressure at the mine mouth. <br />iNNpl'~IIpINI!NINNININIIINNNINNNii <br />00014055 <br />2-16 <br />