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Chapter II <br /> However, the market demand has proven to be mercurial, and the operator has <br /> experienced sudden and unanticipated upsurges in demand. Such an upsurge <br /> could mean reactivating the workings through Entries #3, #4 and #5 before the <br /> Adit/Rock Tunnel extension(s) have reached them. <br /> If Mid-Continent needs additional coal, and activates production from Entries #3, #4 <br /> and #5, it will be necessary to use the roads to haul coal, and as access for <br /> men/materiel to reach the Main Entries. <br /> Coal from the workings accessed by Main Entries #3, #4, and #5 would be <br /> conveyed through the main entries to the portals by conveyor belt, and then loaded <br /> on trucks to be carried, via the road system, to the raw coal storage piles. From <br /> raw coal storage, the process is the same as described above. <br /> See Exhibits II-B-2 a through a (Surface Facilities); II-B-3 - (Rock Tunnel plan and <br /> profile); II-13-5 (Coal Basin Road System); II-B-7 (Overland Conveyor System) <br /> 8. Coal Processing Waste / Non-Coal <br /> Processing Waste. <br /> a. Sutey. <br /> Rock and waste materials are separated from the salable coal in the wash plant, and <br /> transported by conveyor belt to the coal refuse disposal area. The coal refuse <br /> disposal area is situated to the northwest of the plant, across coal creek (See Ex. <br /> II-B-7). <br /> Refuse has been deposited in this area since 1985. <br /> The coal refuse facility includes, besides the coal refuse disposal area, a conveyor <br /> system which transports the refuse from the plant to the disposal area, access road <br /> to the disposal site, topsoil storage area, surface water diversion-collection system <br /> and two sediment ponds. <br /> (1) Sutey - Phases I-IV. <br /> The design and permitting of the Sutey site has proceeded in four phases. Phasing <br /> of the pile relates to the volume of refuse deposited. Phases I, II and III are currently <br /> permitted. <br /> NOTE: The operator feels that references in previous submittals concerning the <br /> Sutey sit have become somewhat confusing in that the four phases of the Sutey pile <br /> expansion have been labeled Phases I and 11 of the first phase, and Phases /and H <br /> of the second phase. <br /> 38 <br />