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$380,431.00. The Division has calculated the cost for the remaining reclamation (including <br />revegetation and site maintenance) to be $223,856.00. The Division finds there will be sufficient bond <br />money available to complete reclamation at the Southfield Mine following the requested reduction and <br />release. <br />The Southfield Mine is located in the historically active Canon City coal-mining district. As a result, <br />there aze several prelaw features within the permit azea that aze not the responsibility of EFCI. These <br />include a small building (the old Vento Mine office/house) by the entrance to the reclaimed explosives <br />storage area, an old truck scale and weighing house along the county road (County Road 92) north and <br />west of the reclaimed facilities azea and arefuse/debris pile west of the county road (County Road 92} <br />by the gate to the reclaimed Newlin Creek Mine. EFCI is not responsible for the reclamation of these <br />pre-law features. <br />The following discussion of reclamation at the Southfield Mine is organized into categories according <br />to the reclamation plan: structural demolition, roads, sealing of underground openings, backfilling and <br />grading, the refuse disposal pile, and drainage control and reestablishment <br />Structural Demolition and Removal <br />The site structures that were demolished and removed include the office/shop/warehouse building, the <br />coal preparation plant, all of the conveyor belts and stacking tubes, the explosives bunker, the rock dust <br />storage tank, the south fan, the diesel fuel tank, the truck scale, the electrical transmission lines from <br />the substation to the facilities area and the guazd shack. <br />The majority of the structural demolition debris was salvaged and resold, sold as scrap or removed <br />from the site to an approved landfill. The remaining mining equipment, including the continuous <br />miners, shuttle cars, power centers and roof bolters, were sold or moved off-site for storage. <br />Two on-site disposal azeas were approved and permitted for demolition debris pursuant to Rule 4.11.4. <br />These approved areas were the Pond 1 basin and the portal area. During monthly inspections the <br />Division noted that concrete, sheet metal and coal fines from the coal stockpile areas and Pond 2 were <br />Southfield Mine Permit No. C-1981-014 <br />SL-2 Findings 12 25 April 2003 <br />