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Chapter II <br />(5) Transportation <br />• Conveyor belt. <br />Function: Conveys the coal from the mine to the preparation plant. <br />Conveys the coal refuse, separated from the salable coal during processing, to the <br />waste pile. <br />Truck. <br />Function: Highway trucks transport the coal from Coal Basin to the load-out at <br />Carbondale, some 23 miles away. <br />Trucks and four-wheel drive vehicles are utilized to transport men/materiel around <br />the surface operations. <br />Water trucks are used for dust control. <br />(6) Maintenance, Support. <br />Heavy equipment, such as backhoes, dozers, road-graders, dragline. <br />Function: earth-moving and snow clearing activities. <br />Principal uses of such equipment include the necessary maintenance for the road <br />• network in the Coal Basin. <br />Management of the refuse pile also requires heavy equipment for clearing topsoil, <br />spreading and compacting refuse. <br />Maintenance and cleaning of the hydrologic control system, which entails cleaning <br />out sediment ponds, ditches, etc., also utilizes heavy equipment. The dragline is <br />used for cleaning ponds. <br />3. DESCRIPTION -OPERATION. <br />a. Land to be Affected -Life of Operation. <br />The Coal Basin life-of-the mine operations will be conducted on 5,841 acres of <br />federal coal lease lands; 3,883 acres of private lands and 1,662 acres of federal <br />non-coal special use permitted lands, for a combined total of 11,386 acres (Exhibit <br />I-A-1). Of the total, 9,319 acres are coal bearing, and include 5,841 acres of federal <br />coal lease lands, and 3,478 acres of private lands. <br /> <br />6 <br />