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

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• A 60-inch reclaim conveyor, housed in an inclined concrete tunnel, to transport coal (4,000 tons per hour) from the unloading hopper to a rubber-tired radial stacker. • The radial stacker will feed a 30-foot high, 30,000 ton stockpile. • A tracked dozer will take the coal from the 30,000 ton stockpile and push it to the existing truck-dump hopper. • The existing hopper reclaim conveyor will transport coal (1,500 tons per hour) through the existing crusher building (with crusher replaced with a coal chute) to the existing, but relocated loadout conveyor, which will feed the loadout building (relocated and refurbished). As part of the approved, but as yet (November 2007) not operational, plan the existing crusher building will be refurbished - the crusher will be removed and replaced with a coal chute. In addition, the loadout conveyor will be refurbished and relocated from the existing stack tube reclaim tunnel to the crusher building. The loadout conveyor will then be used to elevate coal from the crusher building to the top of the re-furbished and relocated loadout structure. Haul road HGLF-HR2, which was previously permitted as part of the original C-92-081 permit package, will be re- aligned and constructed as the haul truck corridor. As of November 2007, HGTI has not initiated any facility modifications or upgrades permitted under TR-06. The facilities and structures on-the- ground are those that were constructed in 1978 as part of the original railcar loadout operation, and which were approved by CDMG with the original C-92-081 permit application package. Consequently the Hayden Gulch Loadout, in its current physical and regulatory state, is a dual purpose facility. Under the original facility plan, approved by CDMG with the original C-92-081 permit application package, and which is still part of the permit application package (see Attachment 12-1), HGTI is approved to loadout coal via railcar for shipment to market. The rail car unloading plan, which is permitted under TR-06, allows HGTI to change the operations at the facility if warranted by market conditions (e.g., if Routt County suddenly prohibited truck haulage from the Foidel Creek Mine to the Hayden Station over Routt County Road 27). Tab 23 of the PAP presents the reclamation liability estimate. The liability estimate for TR-06 (the railcar unloading plan) is $1,083,800. CDRMS holds reclamation bonds in the amount of $1,084,161. HGTI calculated MR-16 5 Revised 11/07