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I\TP.ODUCTION <br />• The Terror Creek Company ("TCC") plans to operate a coal Toadout <br />facility near Bowie, Colorado. Operation of the facility is planned to <br />begin during February, 1983. Coal that is purchased from local mining <br />companies will be screened and loaded on the railroad by this facility <br />for shipment. <br />Geographic Setting <br />The TCC loadout facility will be located approximately one half mile <br />south of Bowie, Colorado, off County Road 4365, as shown on Figure 1, <br />General Location Map. The facility is adjacent to the main line of the <br />Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. The elevation of the site is <br />approximately 5,885 feet above sea level. Access to the site is by <br />State Highway 133 which passes east-west through Somerset and Paonia, <br />Colorado in Delta County. <br />• Size and Configuration of Planned Operations <br />The loadout facility is designed to size coal at the rate of 500,000 <br />tons per year on a one shift per day, five day per week basis. The area <br />necessary to facilitate the loadout facility sizing operation and <br />associated structures is eight (8) acres. <br />The facility will size and load coal which has been purchased from <br />mining operations in the North Fork of the Gunnison River valley. <br />The facilities will consist of a truck dump, conveyor belts, coal <br />crusher, screens, stockpiles and a railroad loadout unit. TCC will <br />provide a necessary market for small producers in the area by purchasing <br />coal for sizing and shipment to TCC customers. <br />The area to be utilized by TCC for its loadout facility has been <br />. historically used for agricultural purposes. TCC owns the surface which <br />the facility occupies. <br />-1- <br />