GENERAL54737

• Permit No: C1996083
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 2/27/2001
• Doc Name: PROPOSED DECISION & FINDINGS OF COMPLIANCE FOR PR4
• From: Start Longwall Mining in D-Seam ‎(Iron Point Tract)‎
• Permit Index Doc Type: FINDINGS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Table of Contents
Introduction ...................................................................................................................................1
Proposed Decision .........................................................................................................................3
Summary .......................................................................................................................................5
The Review Process ..........................................................................................................5
Description of the Environment ......................................................................................10
Description of the Operation and Reclamation Plans .....................................................15
Findings of the Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology .....................................................18
Section A -Rule 2.07.6 ............................................................................................ .......18
Section B -Rule 4 .................................................................................................... .......22
I. Roads ................................................................................................ .......22
II. Support Facilities .............................................................................. .......24
III. Hydrologic Balance .......................................................................... .......24
IV. Topsoil .............................................................................................. .......27
V. Sealing of Drilled Holes and Underground Openings ..................... .......28
VI. Use of Explosives ............................................................................. .......28
VII. Disposal of Excess Spoil .................................................................. .......29
VIII. Coal Mine Waste Banks ................................................................... .......29
DC. Coal Mine Waste .............................................................................. .......29
X. Backfilling and Grading ................................................................... .......29
XI. Revegetation ..................................................................................... .......29
XII. Post-mining Land Use ...................................................................... .......31
XIII. Protection of Fish, Wildlife and Related Environmental Values ..... .......31
XIV. Protection of Underground Mining .................................................. .......31
XV. Subsidence Control .......................................................................... .......31
XVI. Concurrent Surface and Underground Mining ................................. .......32
XVII. Operations on Alluvial Valley Floors .............................................. .......32
XVIII. Operations on Prime Farmland ........................................................ .......32
XIX. Mountaintop Removal ...................................................................... .......33
XX. Operations on Steep Slopes .............................................................. .......33
XXI. In Situ Processing ............................................................................. .......33
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