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Chapter 2 ventilation shaft will be the collar and exhaust Plugging drill boles and performing final equipment. reclamation o pads when drill holes Anticipated noise and vibration issues include (estimated life of each MDW is three large frequent blasts, hoisting machinery, muck years; construc~jlon and reclamation would handling, ventilation fans, and large diesel span 12 years); hnd powered generators. Decommissioni g by obliterating all new , n access roads and decommissioning E Seam Methane Drainage Wells (MDW) existing roads o desired service level or Includes: obliterating ate d of needed project use. , • Drilling and casing of up to 168 MDWs Access and Road C nstruction located on up to 146 drill locations over 12 years on NFS lands. Five of the drilling l i ld l i Relative to road construction, the Proposed Action would authorize construction and use of , ocat ons wou so serve as stag ng a areas. An additional six staging areas may about 22.6 miles ofd roads necessary for these be used, two of which are currently operations. About 15.8 of the 22.6 miles would reclaimed areas. For analysis purposes, be new road construction, about 4.8 miles of road corridors and drill pad window upgrades to existing NFSRs, and about 2.0 locations were used to facilitate optimal miles of upgrades toy ATV trails on NFS lands. ' placement of facilities in the field. The proposed actin tncludes a 0.6-mile re- Therefore, the NEPA analysis over- routing of an xisting life of mine i i d dd i estimated the amount of ground adm n strative access roa to a ress ssues ' disturbance. The actual on-the-ground related to geologic; hazards, sedimentation control and maintenance issues disturbance for roads in the corridor and . l on MDWs in the window will be less than The Proposed Ac tion includes approving , estimated with this method. Therefore, this construction of approximately 2.3 miles of new analysis estimates the potential roads (including th ~ 0.6 mile re-route) in the disturbance by soil type and is not West Elk IRA. The Purpose of and Need for ' representative of the actual acres that these locations have been approved by the would be disturbed by the proposed action Regional Forester a~ they fit an exception to (Table 3-3). RACR (see Proposedi Activities in IRA section , • Constructing approximately 15.8 miles of below). new access road, over 12 years; Access to and from he E Seam MDW drilling • Using and performing maintenance area and the Deer (creek shaft would use a (upgrading) on approximately 4.8 miles of combination of C~ unty, existing NFSRs, existing National Forest System Roads existing life of mme administrative access , (NFSR) and approximately 2.0 miles of roads serving the (coal leases, and newly existing ATV trails on NFS lands; constructed admm~ trative access roads as Installing passive and/or active degassing follows (Figure 3): equipment; Daily project tr ffic (with the exception of • Operating and maintaining wells for oversize/over-le~lgth vehicles) is required ventilation of mine while recovering E to access from the north via the Sylvester ' Seam reserves; Gulch Road (approved as a temporary Interim reclaiming of mud pits, seeding road in the 2002 Coal Methane Drainage ' and mulching outslopes and cut-slopes, Project Panely 16-24 Environmental surface preparation would occur before Assessment anti DN/FONSI May 2002, and modified Ito a life of mine (to seeding; ' approximately 12030) road in the 2006 18 Deer Creek Ventilation Shaft and E Seam Methane Drainage Wells FEIS '