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impacts on threatened or endangered wildlife species. The field surveys did not <br />identify any such species, or predict any such impacts. <br />Description of the Operation and Reclamation Plans <br />Detailed information regazding the operation and reclamation plans for the Bowie <br />No. 2 Mine is presented in Section 2.05 of the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit <br />application document. Section 2.05 of the permit also contains numerous <br />references to maps and other information related to the Bowie No. 2 Mine <br />operations and reclamation plans, which are contained in various sections of the <br />permit application document binders. The following summary is derived from the <br />information presented in the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit application document. <br />The Bowie No. 2 Mine is a coal mine, and coal will be extracted using the room <br />and pillar m;n;ng method. Retreat mining will occur. Mining will be conducted <br />only in the D-2 coal seam. Mining in the B-2 coal seam has not been approved. <br />The D-2 coal seam will be accessed from three (3) entries which will be <br />constructed at an elevation of 6880 feet above sea level. This is the elevation <br />where the D-2 coal seam generally outcrops, within the Bowie No. 2 permit area, <br />and this elevation is approximately 800 feet above the old State Highway 133. <br />The main entries will be driven down-dip to the north, with the sub-mains being <br />driven east and west from the mains. <br />Total annual coal production is expected to range from a minimum of <br />approximately 250,000 tons per year to an approximate maximum of 2 million <br />tons per year. Production will vary depending upon market conditions. <br />The mine facilities will be constructed near the old Bowie townsite. Construction <br />will occur to develop haul and access roads, a conveyor belt system, mine and <br />facility benches, vent shafts, a truck loadout facility, a refuse pile, and various <br />drainage and sediment control facilities. Coal will be exported from the truck <br />loadout facility onto old State Highway 133. <br />A drainage and sediment control system will be constructed. The system consists <br />of ditches, culverts, sedimentation ponds and alternate sediment control azeas <br />referred to as "small area exemptions". Specific details regarding the designs for <br />these systems are presented in Section 2.05, as are references to other sections <br />of the permit application document which present additional design details. <br />All available topsoil will be salvaged and stored prior to facility construction. <br />Salvaged topsoil from the facilities areas will be placed in a topsoil storage pile <br />which will have a capacity of approximately 270,000 cubic yards. Topsoil which <br />will be salvaged prior to the refuse pile construction will be stored in another pile <br />which will have an approximate storage capacity of 3,111 cubic yards. Specific <br />9 <br />