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RULE 2 PERMITS <br />Coal Crushine Facility <br />Coal will be hauled from the various mining areas in haulage trucks to the primary crusher facility as <br />shown on the Existing Structures - South Map (Map 22). Following primary crushing, the coal is <br />hauled to the Gossard Loadout facility, as shown on the Existing Structures - North Map (Map 21). <br />The coal crushing and conveying operations at the primary crusher and the Gossard Loadout have been <br />equipped with a water spraying system at all coal transfer points. A four-sided enclosure-bas-been <br />installed on the truck dump at the primary crusher to prevent excessive dust emissions. The secondary <br />crusher at the Gossard Loadout has a bag house to control coal dust emissions. A stacking tube with <br />metal doors is also used to minimize coal dust emissions at the 100,000 ton crushed coal stockpile. The <br />air quality control measures at the coal crushing handling and loadout facilities have been approved by <br />the Colorado Department of Health, Air Pollution Control Division. <br />Colowyo maintains several areas for coal storage near the shop facilities and also near the Gossard <br />Loadout. Inactive storage piles have been sloped and compacted to prevent wind erosion and <br />spontaneous combustion. If coal dust becomes troublesome in the active coal storage piles, a mobile <br />water truck with a high pressure pump and nozzle is available for dust suppression. <br />No thermal dryers are used in the coal crushing and handling facilities. <br />Disturbance <br />Colowyo, in as much as practical, minimizes the area of land disturbed at any one time. Topsoil is <br />removed only to the extent necessary to accommodate the mining operations. Through the mine plan, the <br />rehandling of both topsoil and overburden is kept to a minimum. Reclamation of disturbed areas will <br />commence as contemporaneously as possible. <br />As necessary, mobile water truck will be assigned to work in topsoil or overburden removal operations <br />to keep any dusty conditions under control. Planting of special windbreak vegetation in the permit area is <br />not planned. <br />Blastin <br />Sequential blasting is utilized as a standard practice to reduce the amount of unconfined particulate matter <br />produced. <br />Complete blasting information is set forth in Section 2.05.3 and Sections 4.08.1 through 4.08.6. <br />Fish and Wildlife Plan <br />During the early stages of pre-planning for the mining operation, Colowyo adopted a policy to return the <br />land to a condition capable of supporting the diverse wildlife populations which the area currently <br />supports. The assumption in the late 1970s was that shrub reestablishment would play a key role in <br />wildlife habitat mitigation. These early efforts were unique in that revegetation with shrub species, <br />especially native shrub species, had never been an integral part of pre-mine planning in the West. <br />Virtually no information was available and very little was known about the growth requirements of native <br />species. To reach these early objectives, Colowyo implemented revegetation and wildlife habitat use <br />studies designed to determine the feasibility and techniques of revegetating disturbed areas with native <br />shrub vegetation adapted to northwest Colorado. However, after 14 years of experience, it has become <br />Rule 2 Permits 2.05-36 Revision Date: 6/23/08 <br />Revision No.: MR-91