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• upon two 10-acre tracts of land (surface only) conveyed to the <br />~ Thompsons by Robert Jackson and John Cribbs on June 16, 1965. <br />The deeds covering this transaction reserve to grantor (Cribbs- <br />Jackson) the right to mine the coal and contain an explicit <br />waiver of all rights to surface support and releases the grantors <br />from all liability for damage resulting from subsidence. A copy <br />of the deeds as recorded are attached in Appendix C. Dorchester <br />is mining coal underground from the Cribbs-Jackson property, <br />including the area overlain by the Thompson surface, pursuant to <br />a lease executed in May 1978, between Dorchester and Cribbs- <br />Jackson. The reserved mining rights and subsidence waiver in the <br />recorded deeds were (and continue to be) valid property rights <br />which were conveyed to Dorchester by the Cribbs-Jackson lease. <br />• Since Docchester's liability for subsidence damage is expressly <br />limited by the deeds to the property, no subsidence monitoring or <br />subsidence control measures are proposed for the Thompson ranch <br />structures. <br />2.6.2 County Roads 92 and 115 <br />Damage to county roads within the mining area is expected to <br />be characterized, in extreme cases, by surface cracking or <br />buckling and vertical displacements, as a result of subsidence <br />troughs. The locations of these features are expected to occur <br />wherever the road intersects the center portions of the mine <br />panel and ribsides and end lines, with the buckling occurring at <br />the center and the panel and cracking occurring near the ribsides <br />and end lines. Measures which will be performed to mitigate the <br />~~ occurrence will be traffic control and regrading of roads as <br />18 <br />