GENERAL46267

• Permit No: C1982057
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 5/2/2003
• Doc Name: Proposed Decision & Findings of Compliance for PR3
• Permit Index Doc Type: Findings
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

to the hydrologic balance outside the proposed permit area. Please refer to Section B.III
(Probable Hydrologic Consequences) of this document for additional discussion of the
predicted hydrologic consequences of mining operations at the Seneca II-W Mine.
(2.07.6(2)(c)).
4. The Division finds that the permit area is, subject to valid rights existing as of August 3,
1977, not within:
a) An area designated unsuitable for surface coal mining operations (2.07.6(2)(d)(i));
b) An area under study for designation as unsuitable for surface coal mining
operations (2.07.6(2)(d)(ii));
c) The boundaries of the National Park System, the National Wildlife Refuge
System, the National System of Trails, the National Wilderness Preservation
System, the Wild and Scenic Rivers System includirig rivers under study for
designation, and National Recreation Areas (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(A));
d) Three hundred feet of any public building, school, church, community or
institutional building, or public park (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(B));
e) One hundred feet of a cemetery (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(C));
f) The boundaries of any National Forest unless the required finding of compatibility
has been made by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
(2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(D));
g) One hundred feet of the outside right-of-way line of any public road except where
mine access or haul roads join such line, and excepting any roads for which the
necessary approvals have been received, notices published, public hearing
opportunities provided, and written findings made (2.07.6(2)(d)(iv));
h) Three hundred feet of an occupied dwelling unless a written waiver from the
owner has been provided (2.07.6(2}(d)(v)).
5. On the basis of information submitted by the Seneca Coal Company in the form of a
letter of approval from the State Historic Preservation Office, the Division finds that
subject to valid existing rights as of August 3, 1977, the mining operation will not
adversely affect any publicly owned park or place listed on or eligible for listing in the
National Register of Historic Places as determined by the State Historic Preservation
Office (2.07.6(2)(e)(i)).
Seneca II-W Findings Document 16 June 15, 2001
Permit Renewal No. 3 May 2, 2003