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• extinguish the offending portion of the pile. Due to the <br />i d~s~ n o ~ the stacking tube; the low wind velocities <br />usua~ly found in our area, and the unusually high moisture <br />content of our mine run the dust emission from the <br />stockpile is minimal. The high moisture content is due to <br />our underground mining methods. A considerable amount of <br />spray water is used underground for control of respirable <br />dust. Approximately 43 gpm ie consumed by the spray system <br />on the continuous miner alone. Additional spray water is <br />used on underground transfer points. <br />Coal is tranafered by front-end loader from the ROM <br />stock pile to the feed hopper of the screening plant, a <br />distance of approximately 85 feet. <br />The screening plant consists of two screens and a <br />crusher plus associated transfers and conveyors and is <br />contained within a building. In addition to [he plant being <br />contained within the building, feed chutes within the <br />building are totally enclosed wherever practicable. Input <br />to and exit from the plant is via coveted belt conveyors. <br />Product leaves the screening plant via two covered <br />conveyors and discharges through totally enclosed chutes <br />into two 100 ton covered bins. Trucks are loaded from the <br />bins, which are only 100 feet from the county road. <br />There is no benificiation process in the screening <br />plant, consequently no waste product is produced. <br />• Ocasionally, a small amount of hand-picking of rock is <br />accomplished on the feed belt to the plant. The eztremely <br />small amount of material thus produced is used as fill and <br />as road bed for the yard area. No accumulation of refuse or <br />refuse stockpiles are present in our mining operation. <br />Support facilities for the mining operation consist <br />of: an office building, a truck scales, a small shop <br />building. a bathhouse/warehouse building, and storage and <br />parking yards. <br />t <br />The mine and all facilities were reclaimed in the fall of 1992. The facilities were <br />shown on Exhibit P-2 Site Plan but have now been removed from the map to show the <br />current condition of the land and the surface hydrologic system which is still in place. <br />Also, as is seen from the map, the shop building was kept by the landowner and the <br />access road to the shop also exists and will remain as a permanent structure. <br />J <br />Revised for Mid-Term Review 12/25/95 <br />P ~z8 <br />