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-13- <br />The general direction of mining has been northward to extract coal from <br />the "D" seam. This mining will shift in an easterly direction to extract <br />reserves from the permit revision area which includes the Farmers Mine <br />area, BLM Lease Modification C-27432, and BLM Lease Assignment D-036955. <br />The coal will move from the mining face via teletram to afeeder-breaker <br />and then out of the mine via conveyor belt to a silo. The coal is then <br />trucked to a railroad loadout facility where it is loaded onto trains for <br />shipment to market. The current production rate of between 700,000 and <br />l.3 million tons per year will be maintained during the term of the <br />permit. The mine uses the room and pillar method of extracting coal. <br />Most of the surface facilities are existing structures that will remain <br />in their present state for the life of mine. The only major area of <br />active, ongoing, final reclamation will occur at the waste rock disposal <br />area. As portions of this pile are completed, final regrading, <br />retopsoiling and revegetation will occur. <br />At the conclusion of mining, the portals will be sealed, all surface <br />facilities will be removed, the mine pads will be recontoured, the <br />loadout will be regraded to approximately original contour, and all areas <br />will be revegetated in accordance with the approved postmining land use <br />and revegetation plan. <br />