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Chapter II <br />However, the market demand has proven to be mercurial, and the operator has <br />• experienced sudden and unanticipated upsurges in demand. Such an upsurge <br />could mean reactivating the workings through Entries #3, #4 and #5 before the <br />Adit/Rock Tunnel extension(s) have reached them. <br />If Mid-Continent needs additional coal, and activates production from Entries #3, #4 <br />and #5, it will be necessary to use the roads to haul coal, and as access for <br />men/materiel to reach the Main Entries. <br />Coal from the workings accessed by Main Entries #3, #4, and #5 would be <br />conveyed through the main entries to the portals by conveyor belt, and then loaded <br />on trucks to be carried, via the road system, to the raw coal storage piles. From <br />raw coal storage, the process is the same as described above. <br />See Exhibits II-B-2 a through a (Surface Facilities); II-B-3 - (Rock Tunnel plan and <br />profile); II-B-5 (Coal Basin Road System); II-B-7 (Overland Conveyor System) <br />8. Coal Processing Waste /Non-Coal <br />Processing Waste. <br />a. Sutey. <br />• Rock and waste materials are separated from the salable coal in the wash plant, and <br />transported by conveyor belt to the coal refuse disposal area. The coal refuse <br />disposal area is situated to the northwest of the plant, across coal creek (See Ex. <br />II-B-7). <br />Refuse has been deposited in this area since 1985. <br />The coal refuse facility includes, besides the coal refuse disposal area, a conveyor <br />system which transports the refuse from the plant to the disposal area, access road <br />to the disposal site, topsoil storage area, surface water diversion-collection system <br />and two sediment ponds. <br />(1) Sutey -Phases I-IV. <br />The design and permitting of the Sutey site has proceeded in four phases. Phasing <br />of the pile relates to the volume of refuse deposited. Phases I, II and III are currently <br />permitted. <br />NOTE: The operator feels that references in previous submittals concerning the <br />Sutey sit have become somewhat confusing in that the four phases of the Sutey pile <br />expansion have been labeled Phases l and ll of the first phase, and Phases I and Il <br />of the second phase. <br />38 <br />