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<br />• <br />• <br />problem with excessive dust from the stockpiling or coal <br />loading activities which result from use of conveyor belts. In <br />addition, GEC Minerals utilizes a raw coal and clean coal <br />stockpile and does not currently have a dust problem with <br />either of these two piles, however, if coal dust becomes a <br />problem, the mine water truck will be used to wet down the <br />areas adjacent to the active stockpiles. <br />GEC Minerals does not plan to utilize thermal dryers within <br />its coal handling facilities. <br />Disturbance. GEC Minerals, Inc. will minimize the area which <br />is disturbed at any one time by its mining activities. <br />Topsoil is removed only enough to allow for additional benches <br />to be started in the mining operation. As soon as is possible <br />the backfill area is graded, topsoil redistributed and <br />vegetation activities completed. Thus, reclamation is <br />completed as contemporaneously as possible with the mining <br />activity in an effort to minimize the total disturbed areas. <br />Drilling. Dust resulting from the overburden drill will be <br />suppressed utilizing a vacuum dust system mounted on each of <br />GEC Minerals, Inc.'s drills. This protective device minimizes <br />dust which would normally go into the air and optimizes safety <br />of the operation. <br />Blasting. GEC Minerals, Inc. utilizes standard practices <br />of blasting to ensure that adequate stemming and delays are <br />used within each particular shot. In addition, blasting is <br />restricted to the ends of each day when no other activities <br />are normally planned at the mine. <br />2.05-36 <br />