PERMFILE101281

• Permit No: C1981044
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Section_Exhibit Name: EXHIBIT 40 E SEAM ACCESS AND DEVELOPMENT
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

a~cnartl D. Lamm
Governor
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Davitl H. Getcnes. Execu~rve Director
MINED LAND RECLAMATION DI\
DAVID C. SHELTO N, Direotor
DATE: August 8, 1986
T0: Gregg Squi r/e~
FROM: Dale Plume \ `J~
RE: FINDINGS OF RESPONSE TO STIPULATION NO. 1 REQUEST FROM EMPIRE ENERGY
"E" SEAM DEVELOPMENT WORK
Explanation of Findings
Pursuant to Rule 2.07.6(2)...Rule 2.07.6(2)(m) are discussed under the
appropriate discipline subtitle, compliance is required as per Rule 4,05 for
the Hydrologic Balance: Ground Water - Pule 2.04.5, 2.04.7, 2.05.3(4) and
4.05.10, 11 and 12
The Stipulation is as follows:
STIPULATION N0. 1
• PRIOR TO ANY REMOVAL OF COAL AS A RESULT OF DEVELOPMENT WORK IN THE "E" SEAM,
EMPIRE ENERGY MUST P.ECEIVE THE APPROVAL OF THE MINEC LAND RELLAJMTION DIVISION
FOR EMPIRE'S PLAN TO MONITOR ANY DECREASES IN THE GROUND WATER INFLOW RATE
INTO THE N0. 5 MINE DIRECTLY ABOVE AND CONTIGUOUS TO THE HORIZONTAL AREA
REPP,ESENTING THE MINE AREA FOR THE N0. 6 ttINE DEVELOPEMT 4(ORK.
THIS INFLOW SHALL BE MEASURED ON A REGULAR BASIS (TO BE AGREED UPON BY
DISCUSSION WITH MINED LAND RECLAMATION DIVISION REPRESENTATIVE) PRIOR TO N0. 6
MINE DEVELOPMENT WORK AND DURING DEVELOPMENT iJORK. IF IT CAN BE DEMONSTRATED
THAT NO SIGNIFICANT INFLOW EXISTS, THIS STIPULATION WILL BE ELIMINATED.
Empire Energy requests that this stipulation be eliminated due to the
following facts:
1. The 1986 No. 5 Mine Inflow Study, performed ,tune 19, 1986, showed there
is no measurable inflow within 500 feet of the portion of the No. 5 dine
overlaying the planned "E" coal seam access and development area.
2. The expected .total inflow to the "E" coal seam access and development
area is 7.0 gpm. This volume amount is too small to try and detect by
measuring changes in the total inflow to the No. 5 Mine, which produces
600 to 700 gpm.
3. Since the "E" coal seam access and development area is in the vicinity of
the subcrop of the "E" coal seam, as well as the subcrop of the "F" coal
. seam, it is expected that both seams are unsaturated in most of the area
approved for the "E" coal seam access and development. Zero dewatering
will occur in areas where the No. 5 i4ine is unsaturated.
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