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. _ .,-.. <br /> <br />Nominee: Powderhorn Coal Company <br />Category: Large Underground Mine <br />Reason for Nomination: <br />1. Powderhorn Coal Company has operated the Roadside and Cameo Mines, <br />located near Palisade, Colorado in full compliance with the Colorado <br />Permanent Regulatory Program, both in terms of permit and on-the-ground <br />compliance. No violations have been written to the operator since 1983 <br />by either OSM or the Division. The operator continues to be cooperative <br />and professional in all dealings with the Division. <br />2. Powder Coal Company has performed reclamation activities at the mine <br />above and beyond the level of reclamation required by the Law. <br />Specifically, the operator has completed two voluntary reclamation <br />projects during 1985. The first project was an extensive site clean-up <br />and revegetation of an old mine materials and equipment storage area <br />visible from I-70. Work activities consisted of removing large <br />quantities of garbage, timbers, and decommissioned mining equipment <br />followed by regrading and seeding of the entire area. Several <br />transformers suspected of containing PCB's were also removed from the <br />site and taken to an approved hazardous material disposal site. <br />The second voluntary reclamation project completed by Powderhorn Coal <br />Company in 1985 consisted of safeguarding and reclaiming the abandoned <br />Blue Flame Mine, located just east of the town of Palisade. <br />Reclamation activities involved dismantling and removing an unstable <br />tipple structure, removing several delapidated trailers and junk cars <br />from the area, backfilling and regrading three potentially hazardous <br />inclined portal entries, and seeding the entire mine site with <br />perennial grasses and shrubs. The operator was officially commended <br />for this work by personnel from the Colorado Abandoned Mine Land <br />Reclamation Program. Please refer to the attached letter for details. <br />/ph <br />6876E <br />