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App. II-B-2 <br />The coal de-gassification program will be implemented, with gas wells drilled from a site <br />west of Huntsman Ridge. The road, extending from No. 4 portal to the west side of <br />Huntsman Ridge will allow access to the drill site. <br />Mid-Continent has participated in studies of a possible co-generation facility which <br />would use the waste material from the Old Pile and the Sutey Pile for a small electric <br />power plant. Electricity, generated at the mine site, would be used for local power <br />needs. The parking lot at the central complex yard would be the probable site of the <br />plant. The conveyor belt which carries refuse to the Sutey pile could then be reversed, <br />bringing the waste material back for use in the co-generation facility. The piles would, <br />of course, diminish until entirely used up. <br />In our underground operations, Mid-Continent will pioneer the multi-lift longwall mining <br />method, which will allow mining of coal from the lower A-bed, which underlies the <br />B-bed, and has previously been considered unrecoverable. <br />Mid-Continent also remains interested in utilizing hydraulic mining techniques at the No. <br />4 Mine, although this remains a futuristic idea, and is not actively planned during the <br />permit term. <br />Mid-Continent will seek further permitting approvals, as necessary and appropriate, <br />before implementation of these programs. <br /> <br /> <br />5 <br />~_~_ <br />~, -- <br />- ~ - <br />