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-4- <br />Description of the Operations and Reclamation Plan <br />The applicant currently holds mining and reclamation permit no. C-055-82 for a <br />total of 1,549 acres. Of this total approximately 40 acres were planned to be <br />disturbed by surface facilities. To date the extent of surface disturbance is <br />29 acres. Two permanent structures, a sediment pond and a diversion totalling <br />2.5 acres will not be reclaimed. <br />Sundance Coal Company submitted a letter on September 1984, describing <br />temporary cessation of operations at the Animas Mine. It is their intentlion <br />not to reopen the mine under their ownership, but rather the mine will remain <br />closed until it is sold. <br />The permit revision application entails calculating reclamation costs far <br />current, existing disturbance, forfeiting permit approval for any and all <br />additional approved disturbance and facilities, and replacing the current bond <br />for one that covers current existing disturbances and facilities only. <br />Therefore, during reclamation activities the following facilities and <br />structures will be removed or reclaimed: <br />Mine Office and Shower Facilities <br />Parking Lot <br />Mine fans <br />Conveyor belts (4) <br />Rotary breaker <br />Coal stackers (4) <br />Reject Hopper <br />Coal stockpiles (4) <br />Coal feeder <br />Reclaim tunnels (2) <br />Prep Plant <br />Water Tanks (2) <br />Fuel tanks (3) <br />Oil, fluid drums (40) <br />Explosives hiagzine <br />Security Building. <br />Coal 1 ab <br />Steam Cleaner Building <br />Earthwork will be conducted at the Animas and Helen mine portals to seal and <br />then backfill and grade both portal acres. The permanent diversion culvert <br />will be removed. The refuse pile will be graded to the approved configuration <br />then covered with 3.5 feet of non-toxic, non-combustible material and 6 inches <br />of topsoil. The remainder of the site will also be covered with 6 inches of <br />topsoil. Upon completion of grading and topsoiling the entire area will be <br />seeded and mulched. <br />The operation and reclamation plans for the three coal train loadouts in town <br />will remain unchanged. <br />Therefore, approval for construction and use of the following facilities will <br />be forfeit upon approval of this application: <br />Truck scale <br />Topsoil stockpile #2 <br />Storage building <br />Trailer Park <br />North Mine truck bin <br />North Mine belt <br />~i. 1 >~ ~,~~. <br />J.• ~iN~'IIidE.lle ,~ ~, <br />,. <br />