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areas <br />• - Construction of facilities area structures and utilities <br />- Initial development of main entries <br />The proposed facility area and ancillary facilities for mining operations <br />are essentially adequate for the planned long-term operations. Surface <br />facilities will) be constructed in two separate areas near the mine <br />portals. They planned facility areas will include the primary facility area <br />at the mine portals and an adjacent shaft and mine fan facility. <br />Proposed total disturbance for overall facility areas is approximately 20 <br />acres. SincE~ all mining will occur underground, the proposed facilities <br />will service 'the mine operation with little anticipated future expansion <br />or modification. Descriptions and plans for all mine facilities are <br />described in detail in Section 2.05.3, and are shown on Map 12. <br />From the portal area, underground mining will originate and is planned <br />to progress in individual advancements towards the north and west in <br />the Ocean VVave coal horizon. Initially, the underground mining will be <br />in development work only as the main and submain entries are <br />---established-into--the -r-eser-ve-area: Development will continue untiF <br />areas of the coal reserve are accessed to begin mine panels for pillar <br />extraction. These panels will typically be designed to terminate at <br />• property boundaries, thin or unmerchantable coal, or boundaries of <br />main or submain entries. <br />The mine will extract coal from a single seam, therefor the only <br />stratum to be affected by the operation will be .the Ocean Wave seam. <br />The location of the seam relative to other coal seams in the formation, <br />and the significant overlying and underlying formations, is illustrated in <br />cross-sectional format on Map 9 and Map 10. The lands to be affected <br />by underground mining over the life of the operation are shown in <br />detail on Map 7. The map shows the estimated extent and sequence of <br />underground mining areas in five-year increments for the projected <br />mine life. <br />Mine FacilitiE~s <br />Constructions of all proposed mine facilities will be initiated and <br />completed during the first permit term. In the proposed area for <br />facilities construction there are no existing structures that will be used <br />or modified 1`or use by the operation, nor are there any structures to <br />be removed for installation of the facilities. <br />The main facility area surrounding the mine portals will include <br />• structures for offices, slope hoist, bathhouse, shop, warehouse, all coal <br />handling andl sizing structures, and other support facilities such as <br />2.05.3-8 Revised 5/01/07 <br />