2011-09-07_PERMIT FILE - C1981028A (5)

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Electrical Power Suooly • Electrical power for the mine site is furnished by the Public Service Company of Colorado (PSC) via a 115-DV line from the Hudson Substation (near Hudson, Colorado) to a location at the section corner between Sections 35 and 36. From there, PSC distributes power at 13,800 volts to the former site of the dragline substation along the north-south line between Sections 25 and 26, and east to the main access road, and then north to the facilities area. In addition, electrical power from this line is supplied to two Snyder Oil Company natural gas compressor stations and a Cellar One Communications Facility located to the east of the main access road which leads to the CEC site. Blasting_Use and Potential All remaining inventories of explosives remaining on site in 1995 were used to reclaim the Coal Handling Facility during that year. With these supplies exhausted and no additional requirements for an explosives inventory anticipated by CEC, a decision by CEC was made to let all remaining ordnance ticenses expire, and to request from the DMG's Mine Safety group (by letter dated January 4, 1996) a final close-out inspection of the explosives storage facilities. If necessary, any future explosives use on site would be performed by a licensed blasting contractor selected by CEC. Site Reclamation • Since mining is no longer taking place, site reclamation will be completed for the filled ash areas in A- and B-Pits by placing six (6) feet of overburden soils and two (2) feet of topsand followed by the approved DMG revegetation program. Also, as facilities and overburden stockpiles aze removed, these areas will be reclaimed by backfilling them with the required quantities of topsand, then revegetating the areas in accordance with the approved DMG revegetation program. A waste management plan exemption was granted in 1987 by the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County contingent upon CEC burying its own non-coal wastes above the ground water table and four (4) feet below the Approximate Original Contour (AOC) as required by DMG Rule 4.11.4, "Disposal of Non-coal Wastes." CEC previously had been cited twice for violations of having scrap oil and grease drums located on site, and in some cases leaking, that reportedly had not been managed in a proper manner. In accordance with a Minor Revision, MR #14 (dated April 4, 1990), CEC has established a protocol to no longer provide for any outside storage of drums. Since almost all oil and grease is now delivered in bulk quantities and recycled by outside vendors, there no longer occurs any storage of oil and grease drums on the ground at the CEC property. 104 5196