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West Elk Mine <br />the surface of the Lower Refuse Pile may also be utilized as needed for materials and equipment <br />storage. <br />Employee and visitor pazking facilities are provided on the bench above the office/bathhouse <br />building. Because the area available for parking is limited, MCC encourages employees to use a <br />pazk-and-ride system and car-pool. Pazking facilities aze designed to use the available space as <br />efficiently as possible. <br />MCC's weather station is located north of the intersection of the main mine hauUaccess road and <br />the middle hauUaccess road. The weather station consists of a set of sensors mounted on a ten- <br />meter tower, and a precipitation gauge with awind-screen mounted near the ground. The weather <br />station collects "real-time measurements" on a regulaz interval for wind speed, wind direction, air <br />temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, and bazometric pressure. <br />HauUAccess Roads <br />No roads on the West Elk Mine site are specifically designated or utilized only as haul roads. A <br />majority of the roads are considered haul and access roads. They aze primarily used as access <br />roads, but coal or coal mine waste aze sometimes hauled across the roads. This classification <br />includes the following roads: <br /> <br />Road Designation Road Location <br />Silo HauUAccess Road Between silos and MB-2R <br />Middle Mine HauVAccess Road Between breaker building and Main <br />hauUaccess road <br />Upper HauUAccess Road Between the intersection of the Middle Mine <br />hauUaccess road and the Main haul access <br />road and the Portal access road <br />Main HauUAccess Road Between Highway 133 and the intersection <br />of the Middle Mine hauUaccess road and the <br />Main hauUaccess road <br />Refuse Pile Expansion (RPE) Access from the Main hauUaccess road, across <br />HauUAccess Road Sylvester Gulch and to RPE azea. <br />Sylvester Gulch HauUAccess Road Between main hauUaccess road and the <br />ventilation shafts site <br />2.05-22 Revised November 2004 PRI G <br />