2008-03-13_PERMIT FILE - C1992081A ‎(7)‎

• Permit No: C1992081A
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 3/13/2008
• Section_Exhibit Name: Tab 1 Permit Summary
• Media Type: D
• Archive: Yes

~ and otentiall y g y
I P y provided for increased facilit lon evit However
~ anticipated market conditions, which prompted the 500,000 ton per year
~ load-in technical revision, did not materialize and HGTI again placed the
facility in temporary cessation on October 14, 2001.
The Hayden Gulch Loadout is a strategic asset for HGTI and its parent
company, Peabody Energy Corporation. Since October 2001, HGTI and Peabody
have been exploring market opportunities that might include the loadout
facility. Peabody controls, or is actively pursuing the control of,
millions of tons to coal resources in Routt County, Colorado. Peabody
subsidiaries are conducting coal exploration (as of November 2007) at two
new properties, south and southwest of Hayden, Colorado, which could use
the Loadout facility as part of the transportation network to get the coal
to market. Consequently, it is not appropriate to terminate railcar
loadout operations at the facility.
Another opportunity would be to retrofit the facility to include a train
unloading and truck loading operation to assist Peabody to fulfill its
long-term contractual obligations to supply steam coal to the Hayden
Station Power Plant and allow Peabody to provide sufficient coal to meet
ongoing power generation requirements. Peabody currently fulfills its
contractual obligations to the Hayden Station with coal from the Twentymile
Coal Company's Foidel Creek Mine. Peabody looked at several transportation
alternatives for coal delivery from the Foidel Creek Mine to the Hayden
Station Power Plant. While truck haulage is the current means of coal
delivery, several safety, environmental and local citizen and government
concerns lead Peabody to believe that a rail delivery plan utilizing the
Hayden Gulch Loadout is the best option. Because the needed throughput was
significantly greater than that approved by TR-05, HGTI prepared a
technical revision (TR-06) that presented a new plan to retrofit the
Loadout facility. Under this plan (unloading coal from rail cars and truck
haulage for delivery to the Hayden Station), the existing facility would be
refurbished to handle approximately 2,000,000 tons of coal per year.
The unloading system approved by CDMG under TR-06 (in June 2005) included
the following components:
• An unloading hopper to unload rail cars.

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