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tie-across haul road, which provides direct access to the Public Service of Colorado generating station at Hayden, Colorado. All disturbed area runoff is controlled, treated and conveyed throughout the site to ensure compliance with applicable laws. Sediment pond 006 provides sediment control for disturbance within the south portion of the original mine permit area. Ponds 005 and 009 treat runoff primarily in the northern portion of the original mine permit area. Sediment ponds 015, 016, 016A, and 017 treat the runoff from the southern extension area. Sediment pond 016A was constructed in series immediately up-gradient from Pond 016, to provide additional detention capacity for the expanded disturbance approved within PR-3. No crushing, screening or washing of coal was conducted, and as such, the operation did not produce coal mine waste. Non-coal waste will be disposed of offsite at an approved dump site. Information pertaining to water rights is contained in Tab 16 (Protection of the Hydrologic Balance) of the permit revision application. All water rights in the area of the operation are listed in Table 16-1, and approximate locations are mapped on Exhibit 16-1. Attachments 16-A and 16-B are water rights studies performed for Seneca Coal Company. There are three adjudicated water sources within the proposed permit area. The Temple Pond No. 2 and the Temple well No. 1 will be destroyed by mining. Seneca has executed an agreement with the water right owner(s) to replace these two sources by leaving Pond 006 as a permanent impoundment. The Frank Temple Stock Pond is an adjudicated water source which will be destroyed by mining of the north pit, and Seneca has arranged to leave Pond 005 as a permanent replacement water source. Seneca Coal Company has an augmentation plan approved by the Water Division 6 Water Court to replace any other sources which may be impacted, and to provide supplies when a call is placed on Dry Creek by senior water users. The plan also approved a well permit for the operation's Trout Creek Sandstone water-supply well. For the first couple years following cessation of coal extraction (2006 and 2007), large scale reclamation activities will occur over significant acreages. Backfilling and grading operations will be completed during 2006 within remaining pit and spoil areas of the Wolf Creek/Sage Creek block, and portions of the Wadge mining areas in the Pond 016 and Pond 017 watersheds. The upper segment of Haul Road "A" and all remaining haul roads in the South Extension Area will either be eliminated or reduced to postmine configuration, if proposed for permanent retention ("A", "J", and segments of "K" and "L"). The shop facilities area is scheduled for facilities demolition and final grading in 2007, along with width reduction along the lower section of Haul Road "A" and the Mine Entrance Haul Road. Drainage channel construction, topsoil redistribution, and revegetation operations will be conducted contemporaneously, with most of this work completed during 2006 and 2007. Sedimentation ponds (unless approved for permanent retention) will be reclaimed in subsequent years, upon demonstration that disturbed Seneca II-W Findings Document l8 July 3, 2006 Permit Renewal No. 5