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• Introduction <br />U <br />I • <br />The Bowie No. 2 Mine was constructed and opened by Bowie Resources Limited <br />during the spring and summer of 1997 with coal production and development <br />beginning on August 15, 1997. The mine began longwall production during <br />November 1999 and currently produces coal at the rate of about 5 million tons <br />per year. <br />There is an active coal mine waste disposal area (Permit Volume IV) that was <br />sized to accept miscellaneous roof fall material and other minor amounts of high <br />ash coal encountered in the mine. This new coal mine waste disposal area is <br />sized to handle refuse from the preparation plant along with other miscellaneous <br />high ash coal. The disposal area will be located east of the existing disposal <br />area and north of State Highway 1338. The new disposal area will have a <br />capacity of about 2 million cubic yards. There will be a coverfil pile, topsoil <br />stockpile, diversion ditches, collection ditches and a new sediment pond <br />associated with the new disposal area. <br />The facility will be located, as shown on Figure 1, along the toe of the natural <br />slope and adjacent to the old railroad bed. The coal mine waste generated from <br />the operation during the initial five year permit term is estimated to be about <br />1,000,000 cubic yards. The Bowie No. 2 Mine has not generated a significant <br />amount of coal mine waste in the past few years, however the preparation plant <br />will generate significant quantities. <br />At present, no construction activities have occurred at the proposed site except <br />for geotechnical drilling and the installation of three piezometers. Anew section <br />of haul road will be constructed along the toe of the fill and is shown on Figure 1. <br />Details of the haul road are presented on Map-16, Volume II. <br />TR-30 <br />-t- <br />02/04 <br />