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Coal Processing Waste and Non-Coal Processing Waste. GEC Minerals, Inc. does not plan to produce coal processing waste or non-coal processing waste during its mine activities. Current coal handling facilities are only provided to size and load the coal into highway haulage units for transportation to existing markets in the surround- ing area. However, a coal processing waste dump exists near the tipple area and is noted as the refuse pit. This processing waste resulted from operations prior to August 3, 1977. GEC Minerals, Inc. plans to cover the coal processing waste with non-toxic material from the area. The area will be subsequently revegetated to minimize wind and water erosion. Underground Development Waste. GEC Minerals, Inc. does not anticipate mining by underground methods and therefore does not plan to have any underground development waste. • 2.05.4 Reclamation Plan The objective of GEC Minerals, Inc. reclamation plan is to restore the mined area to a land use cabability which is equal to or better than that which currently exists. The area which GEC Minerals, Inc. is currently mining has been subject to numerous underground and surface mining activities during the past 50 to 60 years. As can be seen on the Existing Structures Map No. 21 for the mine area, numerous underground mines are present. All of these mines within the mine plan area have been abandoned. In addition, Dorchester Colomine Coal is currently actively, by underground methods, mining adjacent to GEC Minerals, Inc. mine plan area. Surface activities within the mine plan area have consisted of surface mining along the existing drainage channels and mining shallow cover coal near the outcrops throughout the area that GEC Minerals, Inc. plans to mine. As can be noted on the Land Use Map No. 3, prepared from Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service information, substantial areas adjacent to the GEC Minerals, • Inc. operations have been utilized by mining in the past. There- fore, productivity and current land use capability is very poor. 2.05-21