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<br />These ditches could also be left as permanent structures. Peabody addressed <br />final reclamation of the ditches subsequent to original permit approval. The <br />final reclamation plans were approved by the Division on July 15, 1986. <br />Sediment Pond 006 has been designed to contain the 10-year-24-hour storm <br />without passage of water from the emergency spillway. This pond is a <br />permanent impoundment to be used for livestock watering and wildlife upon <br />completion of mining and reclamation. The pond is intended to replace the <br />water right of the Temple Pond No. 2 which will be destroyed by mining. <br />Stipulations 11 and 12 were required with the original permit approval to <br />assure that Pond 006 had a water right associated with the impounded water and <br />that the pond could be dewatered to a level to ensure containment of <br />10-year-24-hour rainfall runoff without discharge through the emergency <br />spillway. Peabody addressed these concerns in Technical Revision No. 3 which <br />was approved by the Division on July 17, 1989. Therefore, stipulations 11 and <br />12 are no longer required. <br />Peabody Coal Company also proposed five stream channel reconstructions as part <br />of this original permit application. All were for areas draining less than <br />one square mile, except for a drainage of 1.08 square miles. Since this <br />ephemeral drainage was just over one square mile, the Division allowed Peabody <br />to design this channel to contain flows from the 10-year-24-hour storm in <br />accordance with Rule 4.05.3, <br />This section is in compliance with the regulations. <br />XXII. Bonding -Rule 2.05.4(2)(b) <br />The reclamation costs section of the permit application is found in Volume IX, <br />Tab 13, pp. 13-53 to 13-88 and Appendices 13-2 and 13-3. The bond is based on <br />"worst case" conditions occurring in "mining year 1987" (the third year of <br />mine operation). The total cost for reclaiming the operation has been <br />calculated by Peabody Coal Company to be $3,007,764.00. The Division <br />currently holds this amount of bond. <br />The applicant is in compliance with the requirements of this section. <br />XXIII. Sealing of Drilled Holes and-Underground Openings - <br />Ru es 2 g an <br />Information on the sealing of exploration holes and other exposed underground <br />openings is found in Tab 12, Operations of the permit application. <br />The operations are in compliance with the requirements of this section. <br />XXIV. Subsidence - Rules 2.05.6(6) and 4.20 <br />Since this is a surface mining operation, the requirements of the subsidence <br />sections are not applicable. <br />- 49- <br />