1994-10-21_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1980007

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 10/21/1994
• Doc Name: Proposed Decision & Findings of Compliance for PR5
• From: Jumbo Mountain Lease
• Permit Index Doc Type: FINDINGS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Table of Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Proposed Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Review Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Description of the Environment . . . . . . . . . 5
Description of the Operations and Reclamation Plan . . . . . . . . 10
Findings of the Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology . . . . . . . . 13
Section A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Section B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
I. Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
II. Support Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
III. Hydrologic Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
IV. Topsoil . . . . . . . 40
V. Sealing of Drilled Holes and Underground Openings . . 41
VI. Use of Explosives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
VII. Disposal of Excess Spoil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
VIII. Coal Mine Waste Banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
IX. Coal Mine Waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
X. Backfilling and Grading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
XI. Revegetation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
XII. Post-mining Land Use - . . . . . . . 45
XIII. Protection of Fish, Wildlife and Related
Environmental Values . . . . . . . . . . . 45
XIV. Protection of Underground Mining . . _ . . . . . . . 45
XV. Subsidence Control . . . . . . . 45
XVI. Concurrent Surface and Underground Mining . . . . . . 46
XVII. operations on Alluvial Valley Floors . . . . . . . . 46
XVIII. operations on Prime Farmland . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
XIX. Mountaintop Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
XX. Operations on Steep Slopes . . . . . . . . . . . 53
XXI. In Situ Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53