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Introduction <br />The Bowie No. 2 Mine was constructed and opened by Bowie Resources Limited <br />during the spring and summer of 1997 with coal production and development <br />beginning on August 15, 1997. The mine began longwall production during <br />November 1999 and currently produces coal at the rate of about 5 million tons <br />per year. <br />There is an active coal mine waste disposal area (Permit Volume IV) that was <br />sized to accept miscellaneous roof fall material and other minor amounts of high <br />ash coal encountered in the mine. This new coal mine waste disposal area is <br />sized to handle refuse from the preparation plant along with other miscellaneous <br />high ash coal. The disposal area is located east of the existing disposal area <br />and north of State Highway 1336. The new disposal area was to have a <br />capacity of about 2 million cubic yards. However, a reduction in the slope angle <br />reduced the capacity to approximately 1,075,000 cubic yards. There is a coverfill <br />pile, topsoil stockpile, diversion ditches, collection ditches and a new sediment <br />pond associated with the new disposal area. <br />• The facility will be located, as shown on Figure 1, along the toe of the natural <br />slope and adjacent to the old railroad bed. The Bowie No. 2 Mine has not <br />generated a significant amount of coal mine waste in the past few years, <br />however the preparation plant generated significant quantities. The coal mine <br />waste generated from the operation during the initial five year life of the pile was <br />estimated to be about 1,000,000 cubic yards. During the period from June 2004 <br />through April 2006 (23 months) the pile was nearly filled to capacity. <br />Approximately 1,000,000 tons (750,000 cubic yards) of gob were hauled to the <br />pile during that period. During 2007 the gob pile will be expanded to the west. <br />The capacity of the new area is about 300,000 cubic yards. This new area is <br />also known as gob pile no. 4. <br />A new section of haul road was constructed along the toe of the fill and is shown <br />on Figure 1. Details of the haul road are presented on Map-16, Volume II. <br /> <br />TR-44 - 1 - 02/07 <br />N PPRovE~ <br />3/z°~a-1 <br />