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The Old Tipple Road, constructed prior to 1977, connects the lower office area with the county road to the north. The Old Tipple Access Road is an approved pre- permit road which also retains access to historic sites of the Haybro Historic District. The road was improved during mining to provide access to the office and area when normal access was interrupted by trains during the loading process. The improvement involved decreasing the grade of the road where it joins with the county road. The Division has approved the Old Tipple Access Road for permanent retention. The light use road was requested by the surface owner of the property to be left intact to allow access to the lower portion of the surface owner's property. The hill slope and Old Tipple Access Road are also used for construction access and maintenance of power transmission lines. A copy of the surface owner's request is provided in Appendix 3.7-E. A profile of this roadway is shown on Exhibit 3.5-20. Culverts to be retained in association with this road include: TA-6, TA8 and TA9. Initially, a riparian area was anticipated to be affected by the mining operations including the existing office and tipple access road corridor crossing over Oak Creek. Since the access road crossing over Oak Creek has been designated as a permanent road for the post mining land use a revegetation standard for this riparian site is no longer required. Associated with the road is a metal tube swing gate near the north end of the Old Tipple Road and a permit identification sign on the north end of the road at the intersection of Routt County Road 127. The Tipple Sediment Ponds were designed before the permanent regulatory program to control runoff from the eastern slope of East Ridge. At that time, three ponds were proposed for the drainage area. A fourth pond was added in agreement with the MLRB due to the small area in which to locate the ponds. Consequently, four ponds were built to provide sedimentation control for the area. The ponds are dugout with a combination principle and emergency spillway. Exhibit 4.6-21 shows the location of the ponds and Exhibit 4.6-22 is a plan view of the ponds. A letter from the Office of the State Engineer, addressing water rights for the tipple ponds is given in Appendix 3.7-D. The Tipple Sediment Ponds were reclaimed in 2003 via Technical Revision 41. Former Tipple Ponds 1, 2, and 3 and interconnecting ditches have been reclaimed to a drainage way in compliance with the reclamation plan. Tipple Pond 4, the lower of what was once a set of 4 ponds, is left in a sediment trap configuration. Tipple Pond 4 was permitted to retain a (modified) basin shape. Technical Revision 45 approved the permanent retention of the office building and associated site reclamation near the Old Tipple Access Road in support of agricultural land use, hunting sub-classification. The topsoil stockpile in the Oak Creek Area was planned for redistribution over the area prior to the permanent retention of the office building. It is a permanent feature, PAP 3.6-14. Production well 86157, located at the office building was permitted as permanent, recorded with Bond Release Application, Page 2 of 3