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State Reg. Box Cut Spoil. Prior to placement of any spoil from a box cut, all available topsoil will be removed from the area onto which spoil will be placed and graded. The location of existing open pits are shown on Exhibit 12-1, Operations Plan. A series of range diagrams were drawn throughout the mining areas. Representative range diagrams submitted with the permit are typical of the series, thus not all diagrams were submitted. As shown on Exhibit 12-12, Range Diagram WC-3, the box cut spoil will be placed adjacent to the box cut and then graded. The placement, as shown on this exhibit, is needed to reconstruct the drainage near its approximate original channel location and elevation. It is Peabody's position that reestablishment of the drainage network in this manner would be more beneficial to the overall postmining topography and thus the reason for not pushing all the box cut spoil material into the pit. • As stated earlier, the box cut spoil will be graded to blend into the existing topography. Stability of the spoil will not be a problem due to the compaction of the material by the grading equipment and gentle slopes. Once graded, the soil will be topsoiled and revegetated. The 4!adge West pit was begun adjacent to a no coal area in the southeast portion of the Wadge coal field approximately between map coordinates E17,000, 529,000 and E19,000, 530,000. After the initial box cut was opened in 1982, the spoil was rough graded and mining progressed west to its current location as shown on Exhibit 12-1. The box cut for the Wadge East pit began in 1985, also along the same no coal area as did the Wadge West pit, but not entirely adjacent to the west pit box cut. The remainder of . the spoil appeared to have been spoiled into a local Swale through that area. Mining has since progressed to the east to its present location. 12-54 Revised 10/1/86