GENERAL45005

• Permit No: C1981014
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 6/14/2001
• Doc Name: PROPOSED DECISION & FINDINGS OF COMPLIANCE FOR RN3
• Permit Index Doc Type: FINDINGS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction ................................................. 1
Proposed Decision ............................................ 2
Summary of Stipulations ...................................... 2
Summary ...................................................... 15
The Review Process ...................................... 15
Description of the Environment .......................... 15
Description of the Operation and Reclamation Plan ....... 21
Findings of the Division of Minerals Geology ................. 26
Section A .................................................... 26
Section B .................................................... 31
I. Roads ....................... ..................... 31
II. Support Facilities .......... ..................... 32
III. Hydrologic Balance .......... ..................... 33
IV. Topsoil ..................... ..................... 46
V. Sealing of Drilled Holes and Underground
Openings ............... ..................... 47
VI. Use of Explosives ........... ..................... 47
VII. Coal Mine Waste Banks ....... ..................... 48
VIII. Backfilling and Grading ..... ..................... 49
IX. Revegetation ................ ..................... 49
X. Post-Mining Land Use ........ ..................... 51
XI. Protection of Fish, Wildlife and Related
Environmental Values ... ..................... 52
XII. Subsidence Control .......... ..................... 52
XIII. Operations on Alluvial Valley Floors ............. 54
XIV. Operations on Prime Farmland ..................... 55
XV. Mountaintop Removal ......... ...................... 55
Southfizld Mine Pe rmit Renewal 03
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