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Rule 2.' Permits <br />Loadout Facility <br />If the market allows, coal will be shipped directly to customers without the need for washing <br />during the first permit term. A 7-acre stockpiling, blending, and railcar loading area is planned <br />on the south side of the main Kern Valley Railroad line, immediately east of the access road in <br />Lorencito Canyon (Figure 2.05.3-1). Coal will be trucked to the area where it will be crushed <br />and stored in open stockpiles for loading on rail cars with front end loaders. Shipment will range <br />from small, multi-car to unit trains. Facilities at the site may include a portable office/lunch <br />room and a diesel storage tank. The facility will be constructed by filling the area immediately <br />south of the railroad and east of the access road with up to 40,000 cy of clean fill to create a <br />level pad. Vegetation and topsoil will be removed and topsoil stockpiled as required. Should <br />markets dictate the need for washed coal, coal will be transported by rail to the Picketwire <br />Processing Plant for processing and unit train loading. <br />Signs and Markers <br />A mine permit identification sign will be posted at the Highway 12 entrance to the LCC mine. <br />The sign will show the name, address, and telephone number of the person responsible for <br />conducting surface and underground mining, and the identification of the current permit <br />authorizing the operations. Additionally, a sign will be posted at the Highway 12 entrance which <br />states "Warning! Explosives in Use", an explanation of the blast warning and all .clear signals, <br />and an explanation of the markings of blast areas and charged holes within the permit area. The <br />permit perimeter will be marked with brightly painted posts. The posts will be placed at <br />irregular intervals such that one post can be seen from the next one. Stream buffer zones will be <br />delineated 100 feet on either side of a perennial stream using rectangular signs labeled "Stream <br />Buffer Zone No Disturbance Beyond this Sign" at an interval which can be seen from one sign to <br />another. <br />(4) Ponds, Impoundments and Diversions <br />The general surface water and sediment control plan consists of the diversion of clean water <br />around or through the site, and collection ditches which route runoff from disturbed areas into <br />sediment control ponds. All surface drainage from disturbed areas will be passed through either <br />a sediment control structure, or controls put in place to prevent the effluent from the site from <br />exceeding applicable State and Federal water quality requirements for downstream receiving <br />waters. The surface water control plan is prepared under the direction of, and certified by a <br />qualified registered professional engineer. <br />All ditches have been designed according to Sections 4.03.1(4), 4.03.2(4), 4.05.3 and 4.09.2(7). <br />Drainage ditches have been designed to pass the 10-year 24-hour storm event with 0.3' of <br />freeboard. Temporary ditches will be constructed to pass a minimum of the 2-year 24-hour <br />storm. Side collection ditches from the fills on the surface mine will be designed to pass the 100- <br />year 24-hour storm. Drainage structures at the portals, along the roads and associated with the <br />fills are shown on Map 2.05.3-2. General ditch cross-sections are provided in Figure 2.05.3-16. <br />Support design documentation are provided in <br />i,,.~~~;r„r,,,t-r,~tri~zs~~gzos-~oFenzooz 2.05-30 (Revised 2/15/02) <br />