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Raw coal from haulage trucks or from the raw coal stockpile is dumped into an enclosed, underground feeder. <br />The coal is then conveyed to appropriate screens for size separation and crushed if necessary. The product coal <br />is then either loaded directly into rail cars or placed in an appropriate stockpile for later loading. Product coal <br />includes lump, stoker, and fines. Limited coal crushing is performed at the loadout. Crushing, conveying and <br />loadout operations are equipped with a water spray system to control dust. <br />Final reclamation will entail removal of some facilities, grading to restore the site to approximate original <br />contour, topsoil replacement, and seeding with adapted pasture grasses. Facilities to remain after reclamation <br />include the office, garage, wooden building adjacent to the office, a portion of the paved haul road and all of <br />the gravel access road. In the adequacy review for Permit Renewal No. 4, the Terror Creek Company proposed <br />one change to the approved reclamation plan. Rather than removing demolished loadout structures offsite for <br />salvage, the operator proposed to bury the demolished structures on site. The Division agreed with this <br />proposal. The approved location of the burial site for the demolished structures is shown on Map 10. The <br />siding tract may remain if it is sold to the Union Pacific Railroad. Measures will be taken to ensure that the <br />water holding capacity and drainage characteristics of the reclaimed slope are comparable to pre-mining <br />conditions.