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DISPOSAL ACTIVITIES <br />?J <br />Ash Disposal <br />During the calendar year 2008, a total of 46,897 tons (2,039 loads) of mixed <br />fly ash and bottom ash were transported to, and disposed of at the <br />Keenesburg Mine site. Since A-Pit reclamation has been completed and that <br />pit closed for some time, the entire quantity of ash delivered during 2008 <br />was placed in South B-Pit. This brings the total B-Pit ash volume to <br />604,410 tons (5,667 tons in North B-Pit and 598,743 tons in South B-Pit). <br />The total amount of ash disposed of at the Keenesburg Mine site by the end <br />of 2008 was 848,762 tons. <br />Consistent with the Permit approvals, the Keenesburg facility continues to <br />only accept ash that is the by-product of the coal combustion process, from <br />the power plant facility located in Golden, Colorado, at the MillerCoors <br />(formerly Coors Brewing Company) facility. Since September 1995, this <br />power plant has been owned and operated by SUEZ Energy Generation NA, <br />Inc. (formerly Trigen-Colorado Energy Corporation). The current <br />agreements between SUEZ and CEC dictate that the ash from this power <br />plant will continue to be transported to the Keenesburg Mine site until the <br />reclamation activities have been concluded. <br />During the calendar year 2008, the majority of the steam and stoker cal used <br />for fuel at the SUEZ power plant was mined and shipped from the Oxbow <br />Carbon and Minerals (Oxbow), Elk Creek Mine, located near Somerset, <br />Colorado, under terms and conditions of a supply contract with Coors <br />Brewing Company/MillerCoors LLC. Smaller quantities of steam coal were <br />furnished by Oxbow on a substitute basis from Bowie Resources, Ltd., from <br />the Bowie #2 Mine (a neighbor to the Elk Creek Mine), and from Colowyo <br />Coal Company, from its mine located southwest of Craig, Colorado. All of <br />these coals have been previously tested and approved in accordance with the <br />requirements of the Permit, and have been previously used at the SUEZ <br />power plant. The stoker coal is produced from the Elk Creek Mine, and then <br />processed through the Terror Creek Loadout facility. <br />Annual testing of the ash produced by the burning of this coal as the SUEZ <br />power plant is conducted as part of the ongoing qualification of the ash for <br />w disposal at the Keenesburg Mine site. Ash "grab samples" (of both fly ash <br />AHR-2008 -44-