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RevisEC 7/] ~;°3 <br />• 2.04.12 Prime Farmland Investieation - Continued: <br />This information was obtained from the publication "Important <br />Farmland Inventory of Colorado" Soil Conservation Service, <br />U.S. Department of Agriculture, Denver, Colorado, September, <br />1980. <br />2.05.2 Operation Plan - Estimated Area for Life of Operation: <br />The proposed additional land will be used solely as a loadout <br />facility (Figure 1). Coal will be crushed at the Bourg <br />property then transported to the Yorthgate site in rear-dump <br />highway trucks. Only the amount of coal needed to load <br />scheduled trains (1,500T/train) will be stockpiled at the <br />loadout. It is anticipated that, on rare occasions, a <br />maximum of 4,SOOT would be left on the site if three trains <br />needed to be loaded in a short period of time. Coal will he <br />loaded from the stockpiles directly to the train using one <br />front-end loader. The total amount of coal to be loaded at <br />• tl~e site will depend on future contracts. A maximum of <br />150,OOOT per year will be produced at the Bourg mine and <br />loaded from the ~orthgate site. <br />2.05.3 Operation Plan - Permit Area: <br />(1) Detailed description of operations: <br />See Section 2.05.2 of this revision. <br />(2) Operation description - surface mining: <br />The loadout facility will be completely constructed <br />prior to the loading out of any coal from the site. <br />Construction includes stripping and stockpiling of <br />topsoil and building of a 20 foot wide, 1 foot high ramp <br />tl:c 1^;;;;th oC the prcpcrtp ~;'i~~rz 1). :,11 2.56 :cres <br />will be disturbed during the construction phase. <br /> <br />• 13 <br />