GENERAL47431

• Permit No: C1984062
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 8/2/1984
• Doc Name: PROPOSED DECISION AND FINDINGS OF COMPLIANCE
• Permit Index Doc Type: FINDINGS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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conducted using the standard area strip mining method with front end loaders
and dozers performing overburden removal. The in-place tonnage of coal is
193,000 tons with recoverable coal 90% recovery, equal to 174,000 tons. With
a two year life of mine annual production is estimated to be 87,000
tons/year. The Wadge coal seam will be mined.
Topsoil has already been stripped and stockpiled from the proposed mine area.
CYCC is only proposing to disturb an additional five (5) acres of land for the
activities associated with this permit application.
During surface mining activities CYCC is proposing a temporary overburden
stockpile. The material will originate from the first pit and it will be used
to backfill the final pit.
The Middle Creek underground mine has not resumed operations since it closed
in 1980. CYCC is proposing to backfill and grade the entire portal/pit area.
Surface water runoff from disturbed areas will be handled through the existing
Energy No. 3 detention basin for the surface mine area and the Middle Creek
pit during backfilling operations of the underground portal area until a
sediment pond is constructed at the Middle Creek portal/pit area. Two small
area exemptions are proposed.
The permit area covers 1357 acres. Of this total 296 acres are disturbed. A
large portion of the permit area includes reclaimed lands. There is no
Federal land involved with this permit application; surface land and mineral
ownership is all private. The legal description for the permit area is as
follows:
Township 5 North, Range 86 West
Sec. 1 SW1/4, Sl/2 SWl/4 SE1/4, SW1/4 SE1/4 SEl/4;
Sec. 2 El/2 SE1/4 SE1/4;
Sec. 12 Wl/2 NEl/4, Wl/2 E1/2 NEl/4, NEl/4 NW1/4, E1/2 NEl/4 SW1/4, SE1/4
SWl/4, SE1/4;
Sec. 13 E1/2, El/2 SWl/4, E1/2 NW1/4;
Sec. 24 Nl/2 NEl/4, NE1/4 NWl/4;
Township 5 North, Range 85 4lest
Sec. 18 Wl/2 NWl/4 NWl/4, Wl/2 SWl/4 NWl/4, SEl/4 SWl/4 NWl/4, Wl/2
SWl/4, Wl/2 SE1/4, Wl/2 NEl/4 SW1/4;
Sec. 19 North 250 feet of the NWl/4 NWl/4
Excepting a haul road from County Road 33 north to Tipple 3, and the
disturbance, permitted by Twentymile Coal Company under Permit Application
No. C-036-81.