GENERAL48106

• Permit No: C1981038
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 7/30/1993
• Doc Name: PROPOSED DECISION & FINDINGS OF COMPLIANCE FOR PR3
• Permit Index Doc Type: FINDINGS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Table of Contents
Page
Introduction 1
Proposed Decision 5
Summary -The Review Process, 7
Description of the Environment,
Description of the Operations and
Reclamation Plan.
Findings of the Colorado Mined Land 20
Reclamation Division
Section A - Rule 2.07.6 20
Section B - Rule 4 23
I. Roads 23
II. Support Facilities 25
III. Hydrologic Balance 26
IV. Topsoi 1 31
V. Sealing of Drilled Holes and Underground
Openings 32
VI. Use of Explosives 32
VII. Disposal of Excess Spoil 32
VIII. Coal Mine Waste Banks 32
IX. Coal Mine Waste 34
X. Backfilling and Grading 34
XI. Revegetation 36
XII. Post-mining Land Use 38
XIII. Protection of Fish, Wildlife, and Related
Environmental Values 38
XIV. Protection of Underground Mining 39
XV. Subsidence Control 39
~XVI. Concurrent Surface and Underground Mining 43
XVII. Operations on Alluvial Valley Floors 43
XVIII. Operations on Prime Farmland 46
XIX. Mountaintop Removal 47
XX. Operations on Steep Slopes 47
XXI. In Situ Processing 47
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