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Roads <br />At the mine, coal is loaded into trucks and weighed at the truck scale <br />within the open mine yard area. From the scale area, trucks access Fremont <br />County Road 92 and travel on County Roads 92, 15. 79. 11-A and State <br />Highways 67 and 115 to reach the Southfield Loadout. At the loadout, trucks <br />enter an open yard area and dump coal in stockpile windrows with dumping <br />locations dependent upon loading schedule and storage requirements. <br />Coal haulage is limited to County roads which have been designed and <br />constructed to County specifications. With a total haul distance of ten miles <br />from the mine to the loadout, eight miles or 80 percent of the coal haulage <br />route is on paved roads. Fremont County is responsible for maintenance and <br />repair of all County roads utilized for coal haulage and mine access. Fremont <br />County has approved mine operations within 100 feet and use of the County <br />roads as documented by a letter from the Board of Commissioners - Fremont <br />County, included with the Fremont County Conditional Use Permits in Exhibit <br />4, Other Permits. <br />In addition to the County roads utilized for coal haulage. EFCI also has one <br />haul road and several light use roads in the mine area which are utilized for <br />refuse haulage and access to various surface facilities and monitoring <br />points. <br />The mine haul road extends from County Road 92 to the refuse disposal area <br />where it ties in with a network of existing light use roads as shown on the <br />Mine Surface Facilities Map, (Map 18). The haul road is used primarily for <br />haulage of coal refuse from the preparation plant to the refuse pile. <br />In order to minimize additional disturbance du-ring mine construction. <br />Dorchester constructed the haul road along the hill slope following the exact <br />alignment of an existing ranch road. The haul road was constructed by <br />widening the existing road to approximately 30 feet. sloping the road bench <br />into the hillside. and adding a protective berm on the outer edge of the <br />road. The haul road was completely cut into the hillside and did not require <br />any structural fill. Generally, existing cut slopes range from 3 to 20 feet <br />2.05.3-39 Revised 5/13/04 <br />Permit Renewal RN-44 <br />