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pounds of explosives. No specific approvals are granted to the applicant under this <br />section. <br />VII. Disposal of Excess Spoil - Rule 4.09 <br />No specific approvals are granted to the applicant under this section <br />VIII. Coal Mine Waste Banks - Rule 4.10 <br />Technical Revision No. 21 (TR-21) approved a coal waste pile south of Pond D at the <br />main facility area of the Foidel Creek mine. The coal waste pile configuration is a <br />side-hill design with a maximum estimated volume of 3 million cubic yards of coal <br />mine waste. The source of the waste is two wash plants which process any low quality <br />coal product produced by mining, or low quality coal not processed. The Division <br />approves the design and any alternative specifications as represented in Exhibit 26A of <br />the PAP (4.10.1(1)). <br />An expansion to the coal mine waste pile was approved with Technical Revision No. <br />67 (TR-67). The waste pile expansion provides for approximately 20.0 million cubic <br />yards of additional refuse placement capacity of the waste pile. The following <br />stipulation was attached with TR-67 and remains in effect: <br />Stipulation No. 64: Twentymile Coal Company is approved to construct the Refuse <br />Disposal Area Expansion in accordance with designs approved in Technical Revision <br />No. 67. Twentymile Coal Company has requested to provide bond for the increased <br />disturbance area in three increments. The first increment, "Initial Bonded <br />Disturbance" of 50.0 acres, is limited to construction of 30.3 acres of refuse pile <br />expansion, 2.4 acres of haul road corridor, 5.9 acres of unclassified stockpile, 3.5 acres <br />of topsoil stockpile, .04 acres of stockpile haul corridors, and 7.5 acres of construction <br />of RDA 10 and RDAI 1 ditches, as shown on Map C-102 (11/13/2009). Prior to <br />disturbance of the Refuse Disposal Disturbance, Twentymile Coal Company is <br />required to submit additional bond adequate for disturbances associated with bonding <br />increments I and II. No disturbance associated with bonding increments I and II shall <br />occur prior to submittal and Division approval of additional bond. <br />IX. Coal Mine Waste - Rule 4.11 <br />The Coal Mine Waste Fire Fighting Plan is found in Exhibit 25a of the permit (4.11.1). <br />Twentymile Coal Company has previously been approved to dispose of select non- <br />coal waste in a location south of the Area 1 pit. This location is located in spoil <br />material from the Energy Mine No. 1, and is located above the water table (4.11.4(1)- <br />(3)). In addition, coarse coal processing waste is placed in the coal mine waste bank. <br />Coal processing waste fines are placed in the coal mine waste bank or returned <br />(thickener underflow) to abandoned workings in the Southwest Mining District or <br />Eastern Mining District. <br />Foidel Creek Mine 30 June 4, 2010