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fYesi E!k Mine removing timber and other woody plants outside the aeeas specified for construction. The only • exceptions aze for landscaping, erosion control, or fire prevention. When trees and other woody material are removed, they are shredded and used for mulch during revegetation or disposed of in an approved manner or area. All cut and fill slopes aze designed and based on the recommendationsofrhe geotechnical engineer. In constructing slopes, Mountain Coal Company uses appropriate methods, such as benching, staggered benches, slope rounding, feather-back clearing lines, roughened surfaces, and special revegetation work, tominimize the overall impact. Mountain Coal Company revegetates all those areas disturbed by mining activities as soon as practicable. The goal of the reclamation effort is to return the disturbed land to its original level of usefulness. Revegetation will establish permanentcover for erosion control. During construction, every effort is made to prevent fires at all times. Fuels, lubricants. explosives, and other potentially flammable items are stored in a manner to prevent fires. No buming of brush, timber, or other waste materials is allowed without cleazance from the proper authorities having jurisdiction over open buming. Finally, if a fire does occur, trained fire control teams drawn from personnel at the mine site aze prepared and available to extinguish it. Moor Buildings and Structures The majority of the surface facilities at the West Elk Mine are clustered together near the mine • portals (Map 53). Major surface facilities at the main mine site include the office and bathhouse building, warehouse, maintenance shop, three-sided warehouse, surface shop building, bulk fuel storage area, bulk rock dust bin and compressor building, potable water treatment plant, wastewater treatment plant, coal stack tubes (see Section 2.05.3(7)), and crushing and screening facilities (see Section 2.05.3(7)). All of these facilities aze on land owned by Mountain Coal Company. Expanded descriptions for some of these facilities are provided below. A few facilities are located in outlying areas, including the unit-train loadout (Map 53), the Lone Pine Gulch mine ventilation fan and substation (Map 53A), and the Sylvester Gulch Facilities Area (SGFA) (Map 53B), which includes ventilation shafts, the F-Seam ventilation fan, mine dewatering and treatment facilities, substation, and other support facilities. Construction of the SFGA began in the Spring of 1997. Descriptions of these facilities are provided in following discussions, and a detailed description of the SFGA is included in Exhibit 69. Office and Bathhouse Mountain Coal Company completed an office and bathhouse building in September 1992 (Map 53). This building is approximately 20,000 square feet and consists of two floors. The bathhouse facilities and operations offices occupy the lower floor. The engineering and administration offices occupy the upper floor. An as-built construction description is provided in Exhibit 68. • 2.05-17 Revised Jan. /996 R,V03: Revised Nov. 1996 PRO": Revised Oct. l 998 TR86