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Description of the Operations Plan Detailed information on the HG Loadout Operation Plan is found in Tab 12 of the permit application. Reclamation activities associated with the Loadout and rail loop are described in Tabs 16 - 20 and 23: and in Section B of this document. Construction of the Loadout and rail loop began in 1978 and coal was shipped to market, from the Facility, until spring of 1987. Coal was again stored at the Loadout beginning late in 1992. Shipments from the Loadout could resume whenever necessitated by area mines. HGTI is permitted to store up to 50, 000 tons of coal at the Loadout and to ship 1,000,000 tons of coal per year according to the teens of the Loadout's air emissions permit. Recovered coal is trucked to the site and either stored in an emergency coal storage area or put immediately through a grizzly and crushing station to be stored in the main coal stockpile awaiting shipment. Shipment to the customer is either by train or truck from the same tipple. Roads inside the permit area are: 2,900 lineaz feet of haul road (HGLF-HRl), one access road, and one light-use road. The railroad spur is approximately 3.3 miles long and begins 0.3 miles from the town of Hayden; it serves as a connection to the existing Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (see Exhibit 12-1, "Facilities Map"). Two existing sediment ponds (and associated NPDES outfalls) act as sediment control for the runoff from the Loadout area: the Truck Loop Pond (Pond A, NPDES Outfall 006) which treats the truck loop and office azea and the Rail Loop Pond (Pond B, NPDES Outfa11007) which treats the coal crushing, storage and tipple areas. A system of ditches diverts freshwater around the disturbance and another system of culverts and ditches conveys water under roadways and to the sediment ponds (see Appendix 12-4 and Exhibit 12-2, "Surface Water Control Plan Map"). Three small azea exemptions are permitted for the three topsoil stockpiles outside the sediment control system described above (see Appendix 12-2 and Exhibit 9-1). A leach field treats sewage from the office and change trailer (see Exhibit 12-2). Water Consummation Water that is used for dust suppression, showers and other operations at the Loadout is piped in from a well in the Yampa River alluvium (H-G Shallow Well No, 1), located two miles north of the Loadout. HGTI owns the water rights for this well as well as an additiona190-acre feet of water rights in the downstream Walker irrigation ditch. These water rights can be used to compensate any downstream users due to consumption of water at the Loadout. Please refer to Volume 2, Tab 21 of the permit application and Sections A (Item 15) and B (Item XII) of this document.