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TABLE 19-1 <br />PROJECTED RECLAMATION SCHEDULE <br />Mining Period Permitted Disturbance <br />(cumulative ac)' Reclamation Period ActuallProjected <br />Disturbed Area <br />Reclama8on ac = <br />1995-1999 977.0 <br /> <br />2000-2001 989.6 <br /> <br />2002-2003 1,019.0 1995-2003 303.3 / - <br /> <br />2004+ 1,034.6 2004 77.9/--- <br /> <br /> 2005 -- / 183.7 <br /> <br /> 2006 -- / 148.5 <br /> <br /> 2007 ---1157.0 <br /> <br /> 2014-2018 --- / 19.7 <br /> <br />Total 1,034.6 890.1 <br />Notes: <br />Actual acres disturbed and reclaimed are from Annual Reclamation reports. <br />' Cumulative permitted disturbance acres -corresponds to current aerial photography. <br />= Reclamation areas (actual and projected) are shown on Exhibit 19-1A. <br />' Reclamation Period 2014-2018 includes road corridors and ponds. <br />° The difference in acreages between "Permitted Disturbance" and "Actual/Projected Disturbed <br />Area Reclamation" reflects areas that were permitted to be disturbed but which were never <br />actual) disturbed <br />that will receive spoil material during the excavation process, and cannot be final graded until excavation <br />advances away from the box cut area. Further discussion of this situation is presented in Tab 12 and 20. <br />In order to achieve the designed postmining landiorm, the necessary backfill material must be available to <br />perform area grading on intemai spoil. Generally, adequate material will not be available until excavation <br />has developed at least two spoils. However, Rule 4.14.1(1)(c) allows up to four spoil ridges behind the <br />pit being worked. When the pit configuration is regular (e.g., typically, interior spoil), and where suffident <br />area is available (i.e.: long, straight pits) to perform "area grading", Seneca strives to maintain <br />backfilling and grading within two spoil rows. Under these conditions, it takes approximately 90 to 120 <br />days to cyde the dragline from one end of an active pit and back, creating two spoil rows. Due, however, to <br />coal market and operation considerations, it is periodically required to also cyde the dragline from the south <br />to the north and back to access an upper spoil bench or to pertorn rehandle operations. This an add <br />60 to 90 days to the dragline cyde before a single spoil row is created. Therefore, due to the depth of <br />overburden, and configuration and length of the pit, it can take over one year to generate four spoil rows. <br />This typical cycle has been drastically reduced since 2003 due to the limited areas of remaining <br />• <br />• <br />reserve and the pit orientations required due to steep grades. <br />Four spoil peaks will also be created by other mining situations. First, in certain locations such as along the • <br />ramps and the haul road, in the box cut spoil area, along certain inside or outside curves, along inegular <br />coal recovery areas, areas with short pit lengths and adjacent to facilities areas, it could take more than four <br />PR-02 4 Revised 10/05 <br />