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Description of the Operations and Reclamation Plan <br />Underground room and pillar methods will be used to mine the two fault <br />blocks delineated on Map 2. of this document. The third fault block, <br />located on the northeast portion of the permit area, was originally <br />intended to be mined but during Permit Renewal No. 1 application, this <br />area was dropped from consideration. Of the three coal seams in the <br />area, only the Lower Pinnacle seam will he mined. <br />No additional surface disturbance is proposed at the Apex No. 2 Mine, <br />The existing disturbance is 5.6 acres which includes the existing portal <br />and surface facilities and includes the office, shop, bathhouse, coal <br />stockpile area, tipple, conveyor, exhaust fans, access roads, drainage <br />ditches and the sedimentation pond. <br />When mining ceases for this operation, the portals will be sealed and <br />backfilled and the bench area will be graded to a stahle configuration. <br />Sunland will distribute a suitable plant growth medium on the regraded <br />surface. The area will be seeded and mulched to establish a vegetation <br />cover consistent with the anticipated postmining land use of grazing and <br />wildlife habitat. <br />-6- <br />