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The haul/mine access road and the portal access road are the only roads on the Bear No. <br />3 property. The main haul road connects the truck loadout and mine facilities with <br />Colorado State Highway 133 at Somerset, Colorado. The road is approximately 0.25 <br />miles long and passes over a bridge which crosses the North Fork of the Gunnison River. <br />The road design was approved by the Division and has been certified as being constructed <br />as designed. A technical revision to widen the road has been approved and the road is <br />certified as being widened as designed. Sediment control for the access road is <br />accomplished by a berm on the outside of the road which directs runoff through straw <br />bales adjacent to the road. <br />Bear Coal Company widened and modified the original access road to the abandoned <br />Edwards portals to access the Bear No. 3 portals, and conducted semi-annual stability <br />monitoring of the access road. The portal access road meets the permanent program <br />criteria with the approved monitoring plan. The road is currently in the process of being <br />reclaimed. <br />The operation is in compliance with this section. <br />II. Support Facilities -Rule 4.04 <br />Information regarding the mine facilities of the Bear No. 3 Mine are contained in Sections <br />2.05.2 and 2.05.3, Map 10, of the Bear No. 3 permit revision application and in Exhibits <br />14, 19, and 24 of the Bear midterm responses. <br />Surface support facilities at the Bear No. 3 Mine included an office, two warehouses, <br />power substation, fuel transfer and storage area, conveyors, stacking tube and a truck <br />loadout. All of those structures are currently being dismantled or removed, except the <br />office building. Anchor Coal Company has requested [hat, and the Division has approved <br />of, the building be retained as part of the post-mining land use. <br />A sedimentation pond collects runoff from the site to mitigate any adverse mining impacts <br />to surface waters. Effluent from the pond must meet NPDES permit standards. <br />The Bear Coal operation is in compliance with the provisions of this section. <br />III. Hydrologic Balance -Rule 4.05 <br />A. Water Quality Standards and Effluent Limitations <br />1. The applicant has demonstrated that sediment ponds and/or treatment facilities <br />will function properly to ensure that disturbed-area drainage will meet the <br />effluent limitations of 4.05.2 and the applicable State and Federal water quality <br />requirements for downstream receiving waters. <br />17 <br />