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facilities. None of these structures are being designed for permanent installations at the <br />site. Although being designed for this mining area, future adjacent or nearby mining <br />areas may be serviced by this site before the structures are removed and the site <br />reclaimed. <br />The office and bathhouse will be modular structures. The shop and warehouses will <br />either be a tensioned fabric type structures (WeatherPort or similar) or metal buildings. <br />Access and parking for these facilities will be graveled. Parking will be designed to <br />accommodate shift change, office staff, vendors and visitors. A well will be used for <br />domestic water service at the facilities. The associated well permit and augmentation <br />plan will be permitted for the operation. Wastewater treatment for the facilities will be a <br />County permitted ISDS system with customary USEPA approval for commercial use. <br />The leach field will be located adjacent to the surface facilities. Geotechnical evaluation <br />of the proposed area was completed this summer for foundation design and to confirm <br />suitability of the reclaimed area for a leach field. In the operations area, portable <br />restroom facilities will be used. <br />Most of the equipment maintenance will be done in the field from service trucks. Major <br />work will be done in a shop structure at the surface facilities or by an outside service. <br />Most of the fueling of equipment will be done from a service truck. The service truck <br />and the coal haul trucks will be fueled at a fuel station installed as part of the surface <br />facilities. Diesel and gasoline tanks (two 12,000 gallon diesel and one 1000 gallon <br />gasoline tank) used at Western Fuel's existing surface facility will be relocated to this site <br />and placed in a properly bermed containment. Waste oil from the equipment will be used <br />for heating the shop and warehouses. Trash and other landfillable waste will be taken to <br />the nearby Montrose County Transfer Station or hauled to the Broad Canyon Landfill in <br />San Miguel County. Other wastes such as oil and grease that is not used for heat <br />recovery will be disposed of through an outside service specializing in waste disposal. A <br />SPCC (Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasures) Plan will be developed and <br />enforced by the operation. <br />As noted in the Mining Methods section, topsoil and overburden removed during the <br />initial box cut will be stockpiled for future use in reclamation. This material will be <br />stockpiled in the operations area. An estimated 300,000 cubic yards may be stored. If <br />theses stockpiles become long term storage, they will be stabilized with vegetation to <br />minimize the erosion from wind and rain. <br />An important part of the mining and reclamation plan for the site is the drainage control, <br />both for precipitation run-off, as well as mine dewatering. Extensive work goes into <br />design of structures to divert undisturbed drainage around disturbed areas and the <br />collection and treatment of water within the disturbed areas. A sediment pond and <br />associated collection ditches will be established in the initial operation area, and <br />additional ponds and ditches will be installed as mining progresses. Care will be taken <br />during mining to minimize mixing the mine inflows with dust and fines generated while <br />blasting and mining. The mine water will be collected at a low point in the pit and <br />pumped to a pond where it has time to settle out solids prior to discharge. Discharge <br />Page 6