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Introduction <br />Section 2.05.6(1) Air Pollution Control Plan <br />Section 2.05.6(2) Fish and Wildlife Plan <br />SECTION 2.05.6 <br />MITIGATION OF THE IMPACTS OF MINING OPERATIONS <br />Western Fuels Colorado, A Limited Liability Company, (WFC) is applying for a new permit to <br />mine the coal reserves in the proposed New Horizon North Mine area. This mine area is located <br />in the W 1 /2 of Section 25, Township 47 North, Range 16 West of the New Mexico Principal <br />Meridian. A significant portion of this proposed mine permit area corresponds to the original <br />NH1 Mine area previously permitted by Peabody Coal Company (PCC), in connection with a <br />permit application submitted in April 1980 and approved in May 1993 as Permit No. C- 008 -81. <br />Other portions of the proposed North Mine permit area, were permitted and mined prior to 1973 <br />as a portion of the Navajo and Nucla strip mines which were mined by the Edna Coal Company <br />starting in 1958 and subsequently by PCC until 1992, when WFC purchased the property and <br />renamed the operation the New Horizon Mine. WFC herein addresses the requirements of <br />Section 2.05.6 - Mitigation of the Impacts of Mining Operations by reviewing the information <br />relative to the Air Pollution Control Plan, Fish and Wildlife Plan and Protection of the <br />Hydrologic balance relative to the proposed North Mine permit area. <br />WFC is in the process of applying to Colorado Air Pollution Control Division for an emission <br />permit for the New Horizon North Mine. A copy of the approved permit will be inserted in this <br />section as Appendix 2.05.6(1). WFC will abide by the APCD permit for the air pollution control <br />at New Horizon North Mine. <br />Please see a separate section devoted to this topic. <br />Section 2.05.6(3) Protection of Hydrologic Balance <br />Please see a separate section devoted to this topic. <br />Section 2.05.63(b)(v) Hydrologic Reclamation Plan <br />Please see a separate section devoted to this topic. <br />Section 2.05.6 Page 1 <br />