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• to improve its ranching operation. The road and truck dump site including ditches, berms, fencing, topsoil piles, landscaping, trees, guardrail, culverts and other permanent features incident thereto and within the right-of-way of the haul road are considered facilities that support the postmining land use of pastureland. See page 4-95 and 4-100 for more details. The dirt track road along the trace of the reclaimed conveyor corridor will be permanently retained to comply with a landowner request (see page 4-98d). The dirt track road is utilized by the landowner to access and maintain its land south of County Road 109. This road supports the rangeland postmining land use. The road (light use road/trail) to the fan shaft, which traverses Stoney Ridge, the bridge across North Thompson Creek, and fan shaft site will also be permanently retained as per landowner requests (see pages 4-98d and 4-98i). The road and bridge are considered by the landowners to benefit the property and benefit wildlife. The road/trail supports the unimproved range postmining land use. • An access road provides access to the No. 1 Mine water treatment system. The access road is shown on drawing D-2-5. This road will permanently remain in place. The road supports the developed water resources postmining land use. Loadout All of the structures at the loadout were removed from the site during 1986 and 1987. Some of the foundations were buried on site. During 1987 the loadout site was contoured and seeded. Based on a vegetation survey performed during November 1991, a demonstration was made that untreated drainage from the reclaimed loadout has a ground cover of living plants adequate to control erosion. Therefore, sedimentation control is no longer required at the loadout. See the discussion beginning on page 4-99(b) for more details. Wells & Explorations Holes ' The following table presents the status of the drill holes known to exist at the mine site. Drill holes at the unit train loadout have been excluded from this table since that area has . been released from the permit.