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Consultation and Coordination: • his section fists a eral, State and Local agencies, companies and universities that were consulted for the EA. Also listed are the pre- parers of the EA. Appendices: `These include: 1) Public Hearings which includes summaries of the public hear- ings held last year. 2) Public Comments and Responses will be for the comments and responses to be submitted on the draft EA. 3) Economic Feasibility Analysis addresses economics for each alternative. 4) Cultural Resource Survey consists of the reports from the archaeologist's resource survey. 5) Permanent Reclamation Seed Mixture. 6) Hi-Volume Particulate Measurements which is data from air quality monitoring. 7) Soils Descriptions. • 8) Transportation Energy Requirements. Matt Sakurada then reviewed the alternatives. The first alternative, the Overland Conveyor, is shown on Map 2, Page 9. The conveyor connects the Orchard Valley Mine site with the storage and loadout area. Currently coal is trucked down Steven's Gulch Road to Colorado 133 and then to the storage and loadout site. This proposal is to run an over]and conveyor from the mine site to a transfer point at the approximate location of CWI's substa- tion on Steven's Gulch Road and then it will turn and go into a building next to the existing truck dump. The proposed conveyor goes under the Farmer's Mine Road, under Fire Mountain Canal, and under Colorado 133. In some areas it is located in a trench and at all times it is as low as pos- sible. There are some times that it will have to be on steel structures. The second alternative is the road and the short conveyor. Trucking would continue down Steven's Gulch Road to a new truck road loop and truck dump facility that would be built. Then the coal would be moved on a conveyor to the storage and loadout area. This conveyor is similar to the overland conveyor in that it also goes under the Farmer's Mine Road, Fire Mountain Canal, and Colorado 133. It will be a trench in some areas and low profile as much as possible. Map #4,showing the route, is located on Page 19. The pneumatic capsule pipeline, shown on Map #5, Page 27, is the method in which pneumatic capsules or cars will be placed in a pipeline. There will be two pipelines, one to go down the hill and one take the empty capsules up the hill. Matt explained that engineers had been working on the route and it was slightly changed from what had been described in prior meetings. -5 -