2009-03-06_PERMIT FILE - C1981012A ‎(3)‎

• Permit No: C1981012A
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 3/6/2009
• Section_Exhibit Name: Section 2.05 Operation and Reclamation Plan
• Media Type: D
• Archive: Yes

silos until shipped by unit trains to market. Coal handling
systems are described in the following sections.
Coal refuse and waste material will be disposed of by
conveying it to the refuse disposal area or by slurry to the New
Elk underground workings. Development wastes will be placed in the
Development Coal Waste Pile. These facilities are described in
detail in the following sections.
(3) Mine Facilities
(a,b)Structures
The existing surface facilities are shown on Map 11,
Surface Facilities and Roads - East Portal and Map 12, Surface
Facilities and Roads - West Portal. A listing of major facilities
is provided on Table 19, Surface Facilities List. Exhibit 28, Bond
Calculations contains a detailed description of all facilities and
respective construction type. In general, structures are built of
structural steel, sheet metal, brick and mortar with concrete
floors and footers. Picketwire anticipates the need to modify
these structures during the current permit term as coal preparation
and shipments of Lorencito Coal begin. These modifications include
updating equipment in the prep plant for increased productivity of
clean coal, installation of a slurry disposal system to deposit
• fine coal wastes in abandoned underground workings, installation of
a rail unloading facility to receive Lorencito Coal, and updates at
the refuse disposal area to allow additional waste to be deposited
in subsequent lifts of the facility.
Coal processing support facilities are required and have
been ,constructed at the site. These facilities include buildings,
roads, water system, sediment control system and preparation plant.
Roads and sediment control structures are discussed in the
following sections. A water intake gallery located adjacent to the
Purgatoire River was constructed to provide water to the operation.
Water is pumped to two water tanks located on higher ground south
of the prep plant. Water is piped from the tanks to the prep plant
and buildings at the site. The slurry disposal system will deposit
coal waste slurry to the abandoned underground workings, and a well
located north of the prep plant will recover water for reuse in the
prep plant.
Buildings at the East Portal include Warehouse #2, Coal
Lab, Ambulance Garage, Oil House, Industrial Building, Hoist House,
Coal Transfer and Breaker Buildings, Preparation Plant, Water Pump
House, and Electrical House. All of these buildings are actively
used for coal preparation operations or storage of equipment and
records. Other facilities listed on Table 19 support coal
processing and loadout. These facilities include coal handling
. equipment (conveyors, stockpile reclaim, silos, and loadout), prep
plant support structures (thickener, acid tank, refuse disposal),
and general support structures (power lines, substations, sewage
treatment tank, and fuel and lubricant storage and dispensing
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