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measures, as determined by the BLM, were taken prior to undermining this site. Extensive research of this site was the mitigative measure required by the BLM, and the site has since been destroyed by subsidence and subsequent rockfall. Details related to the resolution of Stipulation No. 33 can be found beginning on page 8 of this document. Land uses within the proposed permit area are cropland, pastureland, and rangeland. Some of the surface was previously disturbed by surface mining methods under the Mine No. 1, Mine No. 2, and Eckman Park Mine, No. C-81-071. Description of the Operations and Reclamation Plan The Foidel Creek Mine was originally permitted as an underground operation employing room and pillar mining on privately owned coal within a 924 acre permit area. TCC referred to the original permit as a pilot project designed to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of underground mining operations on the Wadge coal seam, which was previously surface mined in the portal area, and on dip slopes to the south and southwest by TCC's sister company, CYCC. Existing surface disturbance along Foidel Creek at the main mine facility area consists of portals, surface support facilities, office, low-quality coal stockpiles, a processing waste pile, conveyors, tipple and batch weigh loadout facility, ROM coal stockpile, rock dust tank, explosives magazine, rail spur, and sediment control ditches and ponds. A large area of the main facility area was within a disturbed area called the Area 2 pit within the CYCC permit No. C-81-071. Since the completion of mining associated with the No. C-81-071 permit, all pertinent facilities have been transferred to the Foidel Creek mine permit. The Life of Mine (LOM) permit revision (PR-Ol) application was approved in 1986 to expand the project into a 35-year mining operation utilizing both room and pillar and longwall techniques, with a peak production of approximately 3.5 million tons per year. The proposed LOM permit boundary encompassed 13,114 acres and involves both federal and privately owned coal. New and expanded surface facilities were required due to the LOM permit revision and included an office/bath house complex, new conveyor facilities, transfer building and 150,000 ton open coal stockpile and loadout facilities. In addition, approximately 5 acres was disturbed by construction of a dewatering borehole and associated facilities on Fish Creek, approximately 2 miles north east of the existing facilities on Foidel Creek. Permit Revision No. 2, (PR-02), Southwest Mining District, was approved with stipulations on February 17, 1993. PR-02 proposed mining and subsidence in Panels 7, 8, and 9 of the SW mining district, which at the present time has been completed as planned. Numerous minor and technical revisions to the permit have been approved since this fmdings document was last revised. Significant minor and technical revisions since that time are shown below. 7