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Section 779.12 Continued. <br />Revised 12/30/80 <br />(a) The size, sequence, and timing of the subareas of the mine plan <br />area for which it is anticipated that individual permits for mining will <br />be requested over the estimated total life of the proposed surface <br />mining activities; and <br />Kerr Coal expects that its surface mining operations in the Mine <br />Plan Area will be carried on through 1989. Most of the proposed <br />mining will occur in the area encompassed by the recently-issued <br />Federal Coal Lease No. C-22777, otherwise known as the Kerr North <br />Area. Mining in the existing Marr Mine area will cease upon the <br />exhaustion of the reserves early in 1981. The size, sequence and <br />timing of events in the Mine Plan Area over the total life of the <br />proposed surface mining activities are shown on: Map 1, Kerr Mine <br />Area Mine Plan; Map 33, Kerr Mine Area Overburden Replacement and <br />Grading; Map 31a, Kerr Mine, Area Soil Removal and Storage; and Map <br />32, Kerr Mine Area Soil Replacement and Revegetation. As can be <br />seen on Map 31a, Kerr Mine Area Soil Removal and Storage, during <br />the initial five year permit term, the ma3ority of all surface <br />disturbance planned to take place within the Mine Plan Area will <br />occur. That disturbance which will not occur within the initial 5 <br />year permit term is delineated as Post-1985 Units on Map 31a. <br />Although two to three years of coal will remain to be mined at the <br />end of the initial permit term, the pit and the associated topsoil <br />removal will extend into all but 27 acres (106 of the total) to be <br />disturbed. In this regard, the Permit Boundary encompasses the <br />entire Mine Plan Area. One additional permit covering the remain- <br />ing recoverable reserves, but no additional area, will be required <br />unless Kerr Coal is successful in obtaining additional coal re- <br />coverable through surface mining methods. <br />(b) The nature of cultural and historic resources listed or eligible <br />for listing on the National Register of Historic Places and known ar- <br />~' ~~~ <br />779-2 aaaaaa <br />~~~` ~; `'0 C7~ <br />i <br />c <br />ts;,.; ic31 <br />P:r~ ~,:r~v4 <br />