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• <br />• <br />Saecial Features <br />Pit Turn Slot Cut. A 115 ft slot cut of is needed on the east side of 27.00 Road as mining <br />proceeds north to the outcrop from the year 2000-2003. Map 2.05.2-2 shows the slot. The slot will <br />begin approximately 630 feet south of the intersection of BB Road and 27.00 Road and will extend <br />about 920 feet north of the intersection. The total length of the slot cut is about 1550 feet. This <br />open "turn" slot is necessary to allow for a safe truck-shovel working area and for the overburden <br />push dozers) to dump their spoil off the coal edge when the mining operation turns and advances <br />westward. Map 2.05.3(3)-2 shows a typical cross section of the Pit Turn Slot Cut and volumetric <br />are listed. WFC plans on making up the deficit backfill volume this cut will create when it mines <br />west of 27.00 Road and the overburden depth increases. WFC anticipates that by the end of 2004 <br />the slot cut will be backfilled, graded and topsoiled by the normal ongoing mining processes. At <br />that point a revision for bond reduction will be proposed. <br />Occasional In-Permit Area Coal Reserve Enhancement Drill Programs The New Horizon Mine coal <br />reserves are based on approximately 115 boreholes drilled between the mid-1980's and 2002. The <br />buck were drilled by Peabody Coal Company in the 1980's with Western Fuels -Colorado (WFC) <br />drilling about 55 holes from 1993 to 2002 Occasionally, WFC needs to drill infill holes within the <br />existing array to;rpake more certain of its' reserve estimations concerning various mining <br />parameters such as coal quality, coal and overburden thickness, etc. WFC anticipates that from <br />the year 2003 and onward such infill holes will occasionally be needed. See Attachment 2.05.3(3)- <br />10for details. <br />• (Revised ~/zoom 2.05.3(3) - 33 <br />