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Present Status <br />Summary <br />The Roadside North and South Portal Mines (formerly known as the Roadside and Cameo Mines) is an <br />underground coal mining operation located in Mesa County, approximately three miles northeast of Palisade, <br />Colorado, adjacent to Interstate 70 and the Colorado River, at the Cameo exit in DeBeque Canyon. Although <br />the official status of the operation is "Active ", there has been no coal extraction at the mine since December <br />1999. <br />Extensive reclamation work has been conducted at the mine since coal extraction ceased, much of the work <br />performed after acquisition of the operation by SCC in 2001/2002. During active operations, mine portals, <br />coal processing facilities, and a coal mine waste disposal area were located south and east of the interstate, and <br />river. Additional mine portals, coal handling facilities, two coal mine waste disposal areas, and a rail loadout <br />facility, were located north and west of the river. At present, the North Portals have been sealed and <br />backfilled, North Portal facilities demolished, and backfilling and grading of the North Portal facilities area <br />largely completed. Some remaining reclamation work will be completed at the North Portals area pending <br />approval of this Permit Revision No. 5. Both of the two coal waste disposal areas north and west of the river in <br />Coal Canyon have been fully reclaimed With approval of Permit Revision No. 4, the Unit Train Loadout <br />(UTL) facility and a portion of the railroad spur and overland conveyor corridor, north of I 9/10 Road, were <br />converted from "Fish and Wildlife Habitat" to "Industrial or Commercial" for the UTL area. The land use <br />change allowed for long term postmine use of the loadout area and various associated facilities for rail loading, <br />unloading, and storage of construction materials. Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Halliburton) purchased <br />the UTL facility from SCC and continues to use the loadout as an industrial site. The entire UTL facility has <br />since been Phase III bond released and removed from the permit area. At the South Mine, located south and <br />east of I -70, the South Portal has been sealed, the coal processing plant and various other facilities have been <br />demolished and removed. Earthwork, and revegetation at the South Portal facilities has been completed and <br />the refuse disposal area has been fully reclaimed Final reclamation plans for the South Portal facilities were <br />modified by Permit Revision No. 3 (PR -3), approved in September 2007. PR -3 incorporated a variance from <br />approximate original contour (AOC), and allowed for retention of certain buildings and facilities in order to <br />accommodate a commercial postmining land use. The mine portals, the former warehouse and shop facilities, <br />the preparation plant/raw coal storage area, the lab /training facilities, and the equipment and material storage <br />area atop the refuse pile have been Phase III bond released. All remaining areas at the South Portals and <br />vicinity, with the exception of Ponds 8 and 9, have had a Phase I bond release including the sideslopes of the <br />Roadside South Refuse Disposal Area, RSRDA Borrow Area, and upper diversion ditches. <br />Major reclamation tasks yet to be completed as proposed with PR -5 are described previously on page 2 of this <br />document under the Proposed Decision. An important component of PR -5 is the decision to leave the Coal <br />Canyon drainage in its current configuration as recommended by the U S Corp of Engineers. As part of the <br />design for CRDA -2, the Coal Canyon drainage channel was realigned to provide a more uniform, controlled <br />flow between CRDA -1 and CRDA -2. Recently, the US Corp of Engineers recommended that that Coal <br />Canyon drainage, which was previously approved for realignment during the reclamation of Ponds 6 and 10, <br />remain in its current configuration. The drainage is stable in its current position and according to Corp of <br />Engineers personnel realignment for the sake of routing the drainage back to its original contours would not be <br />a justifiable reason for issuing a Corp Permit. The Division concurs with not re- disturbing the current <br />Permit Revision No. 5 3 July 10, 2012 <br />