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_~,_ <br /> <br />DESCRIPTION OF THE OPERATIONS AND RECLAMATION PLAN <br />Underground room and pillar methods will be used to mine the three fault <br />blocks delineated on Map 2 of this document. Three coal seams will be <br />mined; the Upper and Lower Pinnacles and Zone 3 as shown on the attached <br />Figure 1 of this document. <br />No additional surface disturbance is proposed at the Apex No. 2 Mine. <br />The existing disturbance is 5.6 acres which includes the existing portal <br />and surface facilities as depicted on 1~1ap 3 of this document. The <br />surface facilities include the office, shop, bathhouse, coal stockpile <br />area, tipple, conveyor, portal, exhaust fans, access roads, drainage <br />ditches and the sedimentation pond. No rail loadout facilities have been <br />proposed. <br />When mining ceases for this operation, the portals will be sealed and <br />backfilled to a stable confiyuration and the bench area will be yraded to <br />the approximate original contour. Sunland Mining Corporation will <br />distribute a suitable plant yrowth medium on the regraded surface. The <br />area will be seeded and mulched to establish a vegetation cover <br />consistant with the anticipated postmining land use of yrazing and <br />wildlife habitat. <br />