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• Protection of Public Parks and Historical Places. No public parks <br />are located within the mine plan or adjacent areas, therefore no <br />public parks will be affected by the planned mining operations. <br />Likewise, the proposed mining operations will not affect any places <br />included or eligible for listing in the National Register of <br />Historical Places. Consequently, this section is not applicable to <br />the planned mining operations. <br />Surface Mining Near Underground Mining. GEC Minerals, Inc. plans <br />to mine through several abandoned underground coal mines to maximize <br />recovery of the coal resources within the mine area. Underground <br />mines are shown on the Existing Structures P1ap No. 21 Mine Area. <br />GEC Minerals currently utilizes numerous safety precautions to <br />avoid danger to personnel or equipment. These safety procedures <br />include drilling ahead of the overburden removal operation to <br />ensure that all openings are blasted in prior to removal of the <br />overburden. GEC Minerals also utilizes all existing mine maps of <br />• these operations to ensure that roads and other activities within <br />the active mine skirt the areas which may be ameanable to sub- <br />sidence. <br />In addition, Dorchester Colomine Coal currently operates an active <br />underground mine adjacent to the GEC Minerals, Inc. surface mine. <br />The Dorchester Colomine operation is in the G Seam which is also a <br />seam which GEC Minerals, Inc. is currently mining, Mine Plan <br />Cross Section Map No. 16. GEC Minerals, Inc. currently works with <br />Dorchester Colomine Coal on a day-to-day basis to ensure that their <br />operations are not conflicting with the underground operations. In <br />addition, GEC Minerals, Inc. has procured MSHA approval for its <br />operation near the Dorchester Colomine operation. Special care is <br />taken by all equipment operators and foremen at the GEC Minerals, <br />Inc. operation to minimize a hazard which they may face or to <br />Dorchester Colomine personnel as a result of underground mining <br />activities both current and past. GEC Minerals strives to maintain <br /> <br />2.05-42 <br />