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<br />Mr. Michael S. Savage <br />June 28, 1985 <br />• <br />Past-Mining Land Use <br />Page Eight <br />of the comments received from the <br />an <br />Response: Arness/McGriffin Coal Company is the legal and equitable <br />owner of the only area where surface disturbance related to the <br />proposed underground mining will occur. A letter from Mr. Sam Arness, <br />President of Arness/McGriffin Coal Company addressing the proposed <br />post-mining land use is presented as Attachment 3. <br />Reclamation Plan <br />1. <br />Response: Peerless has revised the post-mining topography to <br />restore the drainage immediately northwest of the proposed shop <br />area. The revised topography is shown on the Revised Postmining <br />Topography Map (Map 14); revised copies of this map are provided <br />for inclusion in the permit application. <br />2. The a licant should lace ditches and berms around the soil <br />medium stoc piles in_order to prevent erosion from_ups ope. <br />Response: Peerless will place ditches and berms around the soil <br />medium stockpiles to prevent erosion from upslope. <br />In order to clarify resource recovery. the aoolicant should <br />coal writ na <br />so as to insure <br />Response: Peerless has requested a five (5) year permit term as <br />stated on page 2.05-1 of the permit application. The mining and <br />reclamation plan identifies all mining within the A Coal Seam; <br />however, Peerless will submit information regarding actual mining <br />plans for future five (5) year permits upon permit renewal. <br />During the first five (5) year period, Peerless does not plan to <br />extract any pillars within the A Coal Seam. As a result, no <br />distprbance should occur to the C. Coal Seam, which is located <br />above the A Coal Seam. During subsequent future permit updates, <br />Peerless will undoubtedly show mining in the C Coal Seam such <br />that maximum resource recovery of the coal reserves in the permit <br />area can be achieved. Conceptually, mining in the C Coal Seam <br />will occur under the same basic layout as shown on the Mine Plan <br />. Map (Map 11). <br />