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F <br /> response to the Division' s concerns expressed in the Preliminary <br /> quacy Review (as outlined aoove) , the applicant has proposed to defer <br /> pletion of a detailed plan for the reduction of haul roads until the <br /> pletion of the rock tunnel . Because the entire road system is now in <br /> stence in its maximum proposed state of disturbance and because <br /> lamation will not occur until sometime between the completion of the <br /> k tunnel �) and the cessation of mining in Coal Basin <br /> (approximate y 40 years in the future) , the topic is amenable to <br /> stipulation. The Division finds that the following stipulation is <br /> necessary for a finding of compliance with the reclamation requirements <br /> �L r of Rules 2.05.3(3) and 4.03. <br /> Stipulation No. 9 <br /> THE DIVISION DIRECTS THE PERMITTEE TO COMPLETE A THOROUGH MAPPING <br /> ' OF THE EXISTING HAUL ROAD SYSTEM AT THE COAL BASIN ,MINES. THIS <br /> MAPPING SHALL INCLUDE TOPICS SUCH AS BEDROCK AND SURFICIAL GEOLOGY, <br /> { EXPOSURE TO LANUSLiDING AND AVALANCHING, METHOD OF ROAD <br /> CONSTRUCTION (CUT VERSUS FILL) , AND ORIGINAL CROSS-SLOPE ANGLES, AT <br /> A MINIMUM. THE PURPUSE OF THIS RECONNAISSANCE AND MAPPING PROGRAM <br /> SHALL BE TO CATEGORIZE THE EXISTING HAUL ROAD SYSTEH, IN ORDER TO <br /> ALLOW THE DEVELOPMENT OF TYPICAL RECLAMATION PROCEDURES FOR EACH <br /> �d CATEGORY OF ROAD. THE PERMITTEE SHALL COMPLETE THIS MAPPING AND <br /> CATEGURIZATIU{J AND SUBhII AND AC G REPORT 7U THE <br /> � (� t DIVISION FOR REVIEW PR R TO DECEMBER 31 , 1983. <br /> Sr` FURTHER, THE PERMITTEE SHALL <br /> D�_o�f��i�1�BALAfJCE, <br /> �� DESIGNATING THE PROPOSED SOURCE OF {l T BE E UTILIZED IN <br /> COMPLETING THE BACKFILLI{JG AND G' iiG OF THE HAUL ROAD SYSTEM. <br /> THE PERMITTEE SHALL ALSO PROP SPECIFIC BACKFILL, GRADING, <br /> DRAINAGE, AND RECLAMATION CEDURES TO ASSURE OPTIMUM STABILITY OF <br /> THE FINAL REDUCED HAUL D CONFIGURATION. THE PERMITTEE SHALL <br /> SUBMIT THE PROPOSED AILED, HAUL ROAD RECLAMATION PLAN AND THE <br /> DETAILED {MATERIAL LANCE TO THE DIVISION FOR REVIEW PRIOR TO <br /> The access road from Redstone to the preparation plant is a 22 foot wide, <br /> two-land asphalt surface structure generally locatea on an abandoned <br /> railroad right-of-way paralleling Coal Creek. All vehicles carrying the <br /> personnel , equipment, and supplies, and trucks carrying the clean coal to <br /> the Carbondale train loadout use this road. <br /> The applicant supplied no evidence tnat the access road meets the <br /> requirements for road cuts and road eintiankments. Field inspection of the <br /> �r ad cuts and embankments by the Division indicated no problems. A-1a <br /> this road nas been in existence since the first milne opened in 1950- and <br /> portions of the road are on the old railroad grade to `he original Coal <br /> 3 a s i n %li n e. i f #� e r o a d s�-�-t-4 -c-_9u4a�i�n6 2, tom- y u. t i n <br /> ?nV1�'4fltn�TYE$Iaa e e ^irh r <br /> The:re*ore, the Division final ;ne <br /> ?<13t:,ag ac-eness road- to t�-tanvir`,nmen--a- Iy 3GE���t�-�?. ° ', r S Yr :r � , r• <br /> ov\ fe <br /> r rl m R .u .�: S r ,c ``a Wtt �t C r' 4 f dJ c. 1 n <br /> Y�_ <br /> a-r L mac_, Y cam.\`,(C7G--c+, `rcc- 'L G1-��„ 2.v+ C_'o✓t S �r <br /> V •� ° <br /> i e <br /> Y�'l�� - f2(.D ,V9 v , 2, .5 D 1:, y�fr 3 2-?j�G� j-tlE. <:_YY <br />