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(e) The vibration and /or airblast level recorded; <br />(a)(ii)(18) Reasons and conditions for each unscheduled blast. <br />(a)(iii) Ample warning will be given before shots are fired. All persons will be <br />cleared and removed from the blasting area. Roads leading into the <br />blasting area will be blocked by a manned vehicle having radio contact <br />with the blasting foreman to prevent the entrance of livestock or <br />unauthorized personnel to the blasting area. The blast warning is a one <br />minute series of long horn sounds five minutes before the blast signal. <br />The blast signal is a short series of horn sounds one minute before the <br />shot. The all clear signal will be a prolonged horn sound. The horn <br />sound will be audible within a range of one -half mile from the point of <br />the blast. Each person who resides or regularly works within one -half <br />mile of the blasting site will be notified of the meaning of the signals <br />through appropriate instructions. <br />Blasting signs will be erected on all roads leading to the blast site as <br />required by Rule 4.02.6 as follows: <br />1) Conspicuously display signs reading "Blasting Area" along the edge <br />of any blasting area that comes within 50 feet of any road within the <br />permit area or within 100 feet of any public road right of way; 2) <br />conspicuously flag, or post within the blasting area, the immediate <br />vicinity of charged holes; and 3) place at all entrances to the blast area <br />from public roads or highways conspicuous signs which state "Warning! <br />Explosives in Use" which clearly explain the blast warning and all clear <br />signals that are in use and which explain the marking of blast areas and <br />charged holes within the permit area. <br />Since blasting activities will be sporadic, the signs will be displayed at <br />least 10 days before any blasting activity. The blasting signs will be <br />removed shortly after the blasting activities have concluded. <br />The following public notice of surface blasting schedule will be <br />published in a newspaper of general circulation in the locality of the <br />blasting site at least ten days but no more than twenty days before <br />initiating any blasting program: <br />PUBLIC NOTICE <br />New Elk Coal Company, pursuant to the provisions of section 4.08.3 of <br />the regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board, hereby <br />publishes the following blasting schedule. The blasting area is located <br />TR -57 Exh 26 -3 04/11 <br />