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II. Support Facilities- Rule 4.04 <br />The coal loadout facility is located approximately 21 miles from the mine site along the <br />D&RGW Railroad siding neaz Loma, Colorado. Approximately 2.9 acres of disturbance <br />is associated with the facility. The site was previously used as a storage and loading site <br />for sugar beets. Structures at the site were removed and coal material cleaned up and <br />hauled off in 2001. Initial permanent stabilization seeding was done in 2001. Remedial <br />seeding with a modified seedmix was conducted in the fall of 2004, due to failure of the <br />initial seeding. <br />The applicant is in compliance with the requirements of this section. <br />III. Hydrologic Balance- Rule 4.05 <br />A. Water Quality Standazds and Effluent Limitations <br />Information dealing with sediment and runoff control is presented in Sections 2.3.4, 2.2.5, <br />Appendices M(vii) and M(viii), and Figures 2.2-4, 2.2-6, 2.2-7, and 2.2-15. This <br />information has been reviewed by the Division, and the plans have been found to be in <br />compliance with the applicable requirements of Rule 4.05. <br />Disturbed runoff from the coal waste disposal site will pass through a sediment pond <br />designed to ensure that all discharges meet effluent limits established in the CDPS <br />dischazge permit issued by the Water Quality Control Division. Two specific findings are <br />required to allow for exemptions pertinent to this section. The first fmding allows for <br />small area exemptions (SAE's) applicable to specified disturbed azea locations. The <br />second fmding allows for certain disturbances associated with the coal mine waste <br />disposal site to be within 100 feet of Munger Creek. <br />The Division proposes to grant five small azea exemptions from use of sediment <br />ponds. The exemptions aze granted due to the limited size of specified areas at the <br />mine and loadout, and due to the fact that ponds and treatment facilities aze not <br />necessary for the drainage to meet the effluent limitations of Rule 4.05.2 and <br />applicable State and Federal water quality standazds for receiving streams. No <br />mixing of surface drainage with a dischazge from underground workings will <br />occur. The small azeas to be exempted are located on the mine portal bench <br />(SAE-1, SAE-3, and SAE-5), at one soil stockpile location adjacent to the lower <br />access road (SAE-4), and at the reclaimed Loma Loadout (SAE-2). SAE sediment <br />controls include silt fencing, vegetation cover, collection berms, and topographic <br />containment. SAE demonstrations aze located in Appendix M (viii) [4.05.2(3)(b)]. <br />21 <br />