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Mine 84
Summary:
CMAP# 63831302
Public Conference: Tuesday, June 10 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm, at Somerset Township Building, 615 Vanceville Road, Eighty-Four, PA 15330 .
Purpose of Application: Construction of 3900 feet of buried eight-inch pipeline of slurry from Preparation Plant to two proposed borehole sites of an underground mine.
Affected land: 5.6 acres of land along the path of the buried pipeline.

Bailey Mine
Summary:
CMAP# 30841316
Public Conference: Tuesday, June 17 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm, at the Aleppo Grange (at Ryerson Station--Intersection of State Routes 21 and 3001 in Richhill Township).
Purpose of Application: addition of 330 acres to the underground permit area and the underground subsidence control plan area for development mining.
Coal Seam: Pittsburgh Coal
Method of Mining: Development and Longwall
GR: 5-2,9,16,23
Start Date: 06/03/2008 End Date: 06/10/2008

Cumberland Mine
Summary:
CMAP# 30831303
Current Permit: 22,124 underground acres and 379.47 surface acres.
Purpose of Application: Revision to add 4,677 underground permit and subsidence control plan permit acres.
Method of Mining: Continuous mining (development) and longwall mining.
Coal Seam: Pittsburgh Coal
Average Proposed Mining Height: 6 feet
Depth of Cover Range : Minimum of 560 feet to a maximum of 1175 feet with an average of 867 feet for the proposed additional area.
Estimated Life of Mine : 15 to 20 years

Streams Affected: Tustin Run with Tributaries, Bells Run with Tributaries, Roberts Run with Tributaries, Calico Run with Tributaries, Sharp Run, Rudolph Run with Tributaries, Haynes Run with Tributaries, Shannon Run with Tributaries, Whiteley Creek with Tributaries, Patterson Run with Tributaries, Dyers Fork with Tributaries, Mt. Phoebe Run, Dutch Run with Tributaries, Frosty Run with Tributary, Smith Creek with Tributaries, Pursley Creek with Tributaries, Maple Run with Tributary, Stewart Run, Woods Run, and a Tributary to Hargus Creek.

Mine 84
Summary:
CMAP# 63831302
Purpose of Application: Revision to add 642 acres to the underground subsidence control plan area and 30 acres to the underground permit area for development mining.
Method of Mining: Development.
Coal Seam: Pittsburgh Coal
Location: North Bethleham, Amwell, and South Strabane Townships, Washington County

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