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<br />CHAPTERTWO <br />Proposed Action and Alternatives ' <br />to construction operations elsewhere along the pipeline corridor, and the pipes would be buried <br />to standazd depths. No new roads would be constructed as access routes for pipeline <br />construction. <br />All stream crossings and wetland crossings would be open cut. Streams would be temporarily <br />dammed to allow construction across the channel, or active streams may be divested temporarily <br />if flows aze too great. Stream and wetland crossings would be constructed such that there would <br />be 5 feet of cover from the top of the pipe to the bottom of the restored streambe~i. <br />2.2.3 Parachute Site <br />The Pazachute Site would be located at the existing, inactive Unocal Shale Oil Upgrade Facility. <br />The former refinery would be modified and refurbished to accommodate the new final processing <br />facility. The existing site encompasses approximately 304 acres. The Pazachute Site would <br />support a processing plant azea, which would include process buildings, a storage: building, <br />storage tanks, an administrative and laboratory building, product packaging and loadout <br />facilities, utilities, a rail spur, and other associated facilities. Most of the utility, :steam <br />generation, water treatment, and cooling tower equipment areas of the facility would be <br />reactivated, as would be the ancillary buildings and railroad spur on the site. Co~tstruction of <br />some new facilities would also be required. New and existing facilities aze described in the <br />following sections, and the general arrangement of surface facilities at the Pazachute Site is <br />illustrated in Figure 2-9. <br />2.2.3.1 Existing Surface Facilities Layout <br />The project wazehouse, maintenance shop, locker rooms, administration, laboratory, firehouse, <br />and a clinic would all be accommodated by existing buildings. The existing fire water pump <br />building, boiler water treatment building, reagents building, cooling tower, solution receiving <br />tank, return water tank, substation, and other existing surface facilities would also be refurbished <br />and used. The existing refinery and process buildings at the west end of the site would be <br />demolished down to the slab. The refinery and process buildings slabs and the a:~sociated control <br />room would be left in place. <br />2.2.3.2 New Surface Facilities Layout <br />The Pazachute Site would include a new process building, a small substation, a a>nstruction <br />laydown azea, three soda ash storage silos, a railroad loadout facility with new railroad track and <br />associated road access, two product conveyors, a truck loadout facility, a new water treatment <br />plant, a new pumphouse, and four ponds. Anew potable water storage tank, a new cazbon <br />dioxide handling/storage facility, and new truck and railroad scales would also bc: constructed at <br />the Parachute Site. Construction of new facilities would disturb 56.3 acres as shown in Table <br />2-2. This includes some azeas that may have been disturbed in the past but do not currently have <br />a concrete pad, road, or other such direct development. All new buildings would have a desert <br />sand, juniper green or equivalent exterior color to blend with the natural surroundings. <br />2-14 <br />