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Chapter II <br /> (5) Transportation <br /> Conveyor belt. <br /> Function: Conveys the coal from the mine to the preparation plant. <br /> Conveys the coal refuse, separated from the salable coal during processing, to the <br /> waste pile. <br /> Truck. <br /> Function: Highway trucks transport the coal from Coal Basin to the load-out at <br /> Carbondale, some 23 miles away. <br /> Trucks and four-wheel drive vehicles are utilized to transport men/materiel around <br /> the surface operations. <br /> Water trucks are used for dust control. <br /> (6) Maintenance, Support. <br /> Heavy equipment, such as backhoes, dozers, road-graders, dragline. <br /> Function: earth-moving and snow clearing activities. <br /> Principal uses of such equipment include the necessary maintenance for the road <br /> network in the Coal Basin. <br /> Management of the refuse pile also requires heavy equipment for clearing topsoil, <br /> spreading and compacting refuse. <br /> Maintenance and cleaning of the hydrologic control system, which entails cleaning <br /> out sediment ponds, ditches, etc., also utilizes heavy equipment. The dragline is <br /> used for cleaning ponds. <br /> 3. DESCRIPTION - OPERATION. <br /> a. Land to be Affected - Life of Operation. <br /> The Coal Basin life-of-the mine operations will be conducted on 5,841 acres of <br /> federal coal lease lands; 3,883 acres of private lands and 1,662 acres of federal <br /> non-coal special use permitted lands, for a combined total of 11,386 acres (Exhibit <br /> I-A-1). Of the total, 9,319 acres are coal bearing, and include 5,841 acres of federal <br /> coal lease lands, and 3,478 acres of private lands. <br /> 6 <br />