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So as I'm going through these materials I can see that our first speaker is coming up on the screen I'm going to add her to the spotlight that's Michelle Mahoney

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from EPA technology innovation and Field Services Division. So Michelle, I'll go ahead and kindly ask you to turn on the screen share on your end and I'll confirm once we see your slides up there.

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And Michelle I can see the PowerPoint coming up so if you want to go into your slideshow mode.

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Thanks for the introduction gene, and thank you everyone for joining us today. Welcome. I wanted to just show you where you can find some more resources that EPA collects and posts for for public consumption on our fluid web page and that's this page

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that I have up now. And you can get here by going to clue n.org, forward slash mining, and we post all you know new information that we find about mining and treatment technologies and conferences and presentations here so might be a good place for you

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to check out at some point.

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So today's webinar is part of a series, and all of these webinars are recorded as Jeanne mentioned and you will be able to view the archives of these webinars at this website so I wanted to make that available to everyone in case you wanted to look at

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any past webinars or even this one that we're doing now, once the recording is available.

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And so today we're very happy to have a presentation on the urn felt AML pilot recommend reclamation recreation and watershed improvement project.

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This was the winner of the 2020 OSM abandon my land reclamation award.

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So we're very excited to be able to hear this story, and our presenter is Patrick Webb, who is the Assistant Director at pa, pa DPS bureau of abandoned mine reclamation.

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And he is going to show us a very

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thoughtful and animated presentation today that I think will be very exciting.

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So with that I think I'm going to turn it over to you, Patrick.

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You should be able to hear and see me.

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I promised myself wrote a note I wasn't going to see the US and that's the first thing they said so.

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I will get on the way here. Again, I said it again.

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I welcome. Thank you, I appreciate everybody joining up for this, and I need to maneuver my, I have to share my presentation, that's fine.

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Yep. I'll let you know as soon as those slides are up live. Okay, go.

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There they go. they're perfect Go right ahead.

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Welcome everybody. My name is Patrick web from the Pennsylvania VP.

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I'm going to spend time with everyone today to talk about earn felt the urn felt Banda mind reclamation project.

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It's a run an award, as was previously stated, and this presentation was built to show, videos, pictures, interviews, there's some background videos that describe, Pennsylvania, abandoned mine land reclamation, and also how it operates underneath the

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Federal Office of surface mining enforcement reports with reclamation reclamation and enforcement. So Murray, do SMRT is underneath the Department of the Interior for here in the federal government.

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So, as you see here, the NFL NFL pout reclamation recreation watershed improvement project sorry about the link the name. I would point out that the name, ml pilot program that has recently changed over the past year, and 2016 the federal government started

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a program to take a band of mind lands we've always reclaim the beyond the mind lands and treated my mind drainage. Since the 1980s, starting in 2016 the federal government started a special program that once we were climb abandoned mine lands, can they

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be abandoned mine site that's now reclaim can it be repurposed for economic development and tourism recreation. So from 2016 to about 2020. The program was known as a ml pilot and pilot, as you know as you watch TV shows.

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You know, it's something new so after four years the federal government, renamed ml pilot they renamed it as Ambler HMLBR, and this presentation and the nomination was written before the name change.

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So I think it's very significant that I do mention that this is now known as the abandoned mind land, economic and revitalization program known as Ambler, so I've trained myself not to say, ml pilot been doing that for over a year now, And it's so it's

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we may hear me say Ambler and learn and learn it because it's the abandoned mine land economic revitalization program.

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So, get the slides moving here we go so what I have to share with you first make sure this right, is that video.

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In this presentation, the way I have it set up this is you download the end of the presentation in PDF form the hyperlinks are built that they will work for you.

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So then I can just skip to them right away so I'm going to first start off with, showing this video that discusses about a band of mine lands in general, and how it specifically applies to earn failed.

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And we'll go first with this. So, here we go.

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Paul six of the state's watersheds are haunted by the ghosts of mining's past

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the environmental effects of coal mining weren't regulated in the United States until 1977. Prior to that, mining companies finished a job and walked away.

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When water fills the chef's today it sweeps toxins into the water, and even private wells.

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So in that can be iron sulfates manganese, magnesium, aluminum, and other heavy metals, they can be toxic primarily to officially.

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Most of the drainage is acidic caused by an iron mixture that turns water orange when it's exposed to oxygen.

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Drainage could also be contaminated by alkaline or other metal materials that turned to water whites, or bluish green.

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The state of Pennsylvania leads the nation with the most dependent on problems. If you look at 67 counties in the state. There's 43 of them that have abandoned Milan problems like this toxic pile looming over the homes and Aaron filled in Cambria Kelly.

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What do you are saying behind me now is the Ehrenfeld dangerous refuse pile and and thank them area spoil piles, like this, or another legacy of mining's past excavated land left to sit on top of the earth, the spoil is anything and everything rocks top

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soil clay, sam, you name it.

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3.2 million tons of anything and everything.

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Washington the nearby water

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had over 200 years of mining that was being done without any real environmental concern and safety concern there story is one of being forgotten.

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And I think a lot of the residents thought that that was their lot in life it was a legacy, they didn't necessarily create the problem but they didn't necessarily see the problem going away.

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That changed in April of 2016, government agencies, conservation groups, and rosebud mining company came together to remove the spoil pile and restore the land.

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So I think that's the perfect example of how legacy issues can be dealt with, with modern day permitting to achieve the goal, the top of this hill show something Ehrenfeld residents haven't seen here in a century grass and trees growing a newly restored

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And all of these improvements will benefit the watershed.

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It's a good news story. We are a good samaritan organization, we deal with private property owners everyday Joe's out here that bought property and didn't realize that they own 50 acres and on their 50 acres they have abandoned mine features.

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Since our program began after 1977. We have reclaimed over 25,000 acres of AML visiting reclamation sites for me is probably one of the greatest joys of the job to see how communities perception changes over time.

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And I really get the feeling that there's a new sense of community pride.

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Oh, okay, get you back to get the hang of this. Okay.

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There we go. Yes, so that was just a video that was produced a couple of years ago to sort of dive into a little bit about abandoned mine land reclamation.

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So, the sites that we work on are here's a good cover of before and after the band The mind land sites that are eligible for record nation. They were created by mining companies prior to 1977 for their profit.

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And then they were left on reclaimed acid mind drainage. That was leaving the side would not be treated. Post 1977, and our active mining side for title five, those type of conditions are not to exist through modern day permanent.

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So, for Amanda mine land reclamation.

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If a site is proven to have had surface mining for coal or deep mining for call prior 1977. It could be eligible, at the end of mine site for us to reclaim underneath the Surface Mining Reclamation Control Act.

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Notice backdrop for night from 1977.

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So applying the law, and it was reauthorized recently for us to continue working on abandon my land reclamation. This is a very good shot of before and after, of what the pot refuse POW Daniels power embankment site and 1956 look like and what it looks

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like today here after 2021 This picture was taken. And this is, this is the cover of the nomination that we wrote it shows how Pennsylvania, we're on here with officer service Mining Reclamation and enforcement and Rose bed mining company who was the

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contract, we have partners on this project list below and may not be very good to see, but they're also listed on our upcoming slide here.

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So, what I like to point out is that if the nomination that was written isn't available here on the internet.

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And I'll get the hang of having.

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Here's our website where we show our all our award winning projects.

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Here's earned fail that we're talking about here in 2020, and recently here in 2021 this diamond refuse power, similar to earn felt also won an award.

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It was a regional award, whereas earned felt power won the National Award. So within this PowerPoint, not only can you, you know, find out more about arm fell but you can look at the other projects we've worked on and also won awards so specifically for

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pre 1977 eligible mind refuse piles, there's basically three ways you can reclaim them, and these award winning projects for Steinman that was processed at a cogent company here firm fell, which was dug up in disposed of in a primitive facility, or even

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even done here back in 2016 the matter refuse power. There was no good way to dig up that pile, or burn that power for energy.

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It was covered and kept on site. So that's some information there.

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The nomination itself in this PowerPoint.

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And on the website. Here is the full nomination. That was written submitted to the office of Surface Mining Reclamation enforcement in 2012 2020 to compete.

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So the full nominations in here, I think I have to refresh it.

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So, if you have time you want to find out more information, you can always come to the, the nomination here to read all about arm felt. It's highly loaded with, you know, information, videos and pictures, there was a digital submission here if you click

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on this link, it takes you to all so much more information. We have a video section in here that shows all the construction videos before during and after and some interviews.

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So just gotten your guiding you through the you know the presentation and all that I have learned up on here. So let me go back to the presentation.

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There we go. I'm getting the hang of it now. Good. So, now getting you to the location of this project. So here in Pennsylvania.

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The Ehrenfeld site is low Kennedy and Cambria County. He should be able to see like a red bubble. During this presentation, near the town Johnstown UC Pittsburgh here located in Allegheny County and Philly is located all the way across the eastern part

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of the county, all the way over here. So, there is a location of the project side of Johnstown pa Johnston's No, not now but there was a flood that happened in 1889 Dam broke and flooded the town and the city of Johnstown has faced many challenges with

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flooding. So if you've heard of Johnstown it's known for its floods, but it's a beautiful town, so.

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Ah, now we're getting into the problems at hand with the ML site.

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I'm felt like I mentioned before, the band of mine reclamation underneath the Surface Mining Reclamation Control Act of 1977 notice macro Amanda mind sites are known as title for active mind sites for permitting after 1977 are known as total five sites,

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my program is responsible, whenever buddy anyone would report, an issue is to make sure does it comply and is eligible for title for pre 1977 event of mine reclamation, and they are unfilled site was full of what we call dangerous pile and bank many areas,

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it's mine refuse, primarily there were three areas we call them refuse power, one, two, and the third one was along the bike trail path that was added through a work order on the contract, other band of Milan features that were hazardous.

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We're also we call these priority to features parts of the refuse power were smuggling you wouldn't see flames but it was a smoky condition you can smell the refuse burning.

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The refuse to so much out there that will was placed upon the topography. It also would clog streams, like in London a tributary to the little Cannonball River.

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And then we also have a god power, a p3 GOD Power is almost the same as a Pete too dangerous power in a bank, it's all refuse. It's just the fact that the p3 wasn't right against the home to make it a priority to condition.

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So, you have your band of mindset the title for site where the refuse pile on the band the mindset and the dangerous conditions, we're at, and through a process of trying to design the project, how to figure out how to get rid of the refuse.

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We sell up on taking the refuse power trucking it to a title five permanent surface mind site, and that is known as also the arm felt surface mine permit.

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Do you see here it was permitted for 726 acres of which 246.6 was actively being surface mine.

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Now the, the start dates of the AML site. The almost 70 acres of the earth fell refuse pile, showing the timeline that began in April of 2016 and completely was completed in August of 2020, showing you the cost of the project.

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Now I know 35.3 million is a lot of money.

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You're going to see here to handle a refuse site 70 acres and how is situated. When we first advertise this project we had bids come in, of almost 100 million dollars i think the low bid was somewhere around 90 million, and that was to dig up the refuse

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pile and dispose of it in a permitted facility. But since we were able to work with our active mining program and title five. You can see how we significantly reduce the project cost to remove the abandoned mine Liam has.

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So for our project partners, our main project, or our project partner from the federal government is the Office of surface mining recommendation enforcement.

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They're known as OSM, they also go by OSMRE.

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So you may hear people describe them as OSMRO SMRT my office, the beer of a band of mine reclamation where the title for program for a band of mine sites to reclaim them.

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And for permanent active title five sites for any active mind site that's after 1977 or district mining site district mining office is in charge of the act of mining of the sites.

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We also have our other project partners that were shown on the cover page and I won't read them for timing, and you can always refer to them, have a rosebud mining company was our contract.

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So I got some sorry here.

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All right, here we go. Now this slide is just showing you the abandoned mine site, because I it's kind of confusing when you have two different work sites.

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The title for being the HTML site, then this is what this is showing here the before construction conditions. So as you see here at 69 and a half acres of total AML, what we call the priority to dangerous pound embankment of the refuse pile number one

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up here was 55.8 acres.

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Below Second Street was refuse Powell number two. And that was 7.7, acres, and then look at West of the town of her fell along the bike trail is what we call the Johnstone path of the flood trail refuse power.

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This was six acres, and this. This area was added to the six acres refuse Paul was added to the project has worked for

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Creek and again this is all showing you the pre construction conditions. This is a 1956 photo of the Pennsylvania colon coke operate operate the underground coal mining, or refuse disposal operations above the time of arm fail.

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So, earn failed is all below here and this just showing you the, the front the South. The South Bank that side of the refuse pound 1956.

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This is a 1967 photo. Again the PA cola coke continue operations on 1971 until the Bethlehem, mine Corporation acquired the operation. Due to the stability concerns of the pow, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental resources that used to be the

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name of department environmental protection, but they used to be known as Dr. So Dr at the time had to directly, consult with them and tell them they cannot accept any additional disposal of the mind refuse of the site.

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Because of the instability of the refuse power.

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So here's a picture that starts a series of aerial oblique photos of the pile that were taken in 2012, before the reclamation contract would start in 2016.

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This is a southern big pile located above railroad Street, which is right here.

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And the, the top half of the flood trail so this is a municipal street but it also functions as a recreational trail. So you would have trail riders at the base of the pile.

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There was a dangerous condition, if you can imagine the great writing down the spike trial, let's say you're a five year old or an eight year old.

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When you're rewriting this bike trail so this was an issue that we improved with this project.

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This is a Eastern embankment sign of the refuse pound breakfast poll number two, again, above railroad Street and turn the metal. And here's refuse Powell number one below the street.

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And you see this is a mind water treatment facility here. This is treating DeepMind water that's below the refuse pile but this is a good photo showing the instability of the refuse pal, you may see a little bit of orange in the photo.

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This is where the referees pub did catch on fire recall that Red Dog. And this is where some of the toxic fumes were coming from the refuse power, and it was slump slumping insight and sliding.

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There was an emergency contract that they did, way before the project again, where they try to stabilize the reference power right in this area of the federal government did that.

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Here's another picture, this is the northern part of the bacon side of the refuse Problem number one. The Western bacon cider refuse power one also filled in this original stream segments of the mundane tributary to the, the little column or river the

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little corner mall is right down here, and they had an unnamed tributary while at the base of the pile so there's something tributary should have been over this way, but the operations filled in the stream and the stream had to move over towards these

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Before the, the construction of the pound 2016 and even now that it's over.

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The, this is route 219 so this site is very highly visible from the, from the highway.

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Now this is a western bank side of the refuse Paul number. Number one, and 2012. In this era of the referees pal had consumed over 60 acres of the town of Bernfeld this area masses of 45% of the memorable land in the borough.

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So this is all around film you have homes over here, you have homes over here and this is all the borough area. So the refuse power was wasting 45% of the developable land in Erbil.

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And now being on top of the pound this isn't on top yet, but this is a preconstruction photo standing on one of the plateaus not the top of the breakfast pub of the town.

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Basically rough power in this in this picture is within five feet of this home so I'm just going to point out this home. Try to remember because you're going to see the number of photos refuse power plane so you know when it rains for winter rain real

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hard, you know, before the refuse power was reclaimed, you better refuse pile towards the home you have acid mine drainage coming off the power. So this was the 2016 pre-construction dangerous conditions, and the proximity of this quote of this being

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this close to this home. You saw the other photo the refuse powers into the stream and there was homes on the other side of the screen.

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You're another picture on that same plot to area, and that's a co worker of mine can go back.

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You can see the homes here in arm felt in the background also in distance, this is the town of South for as well, and then the little corner mom is right underneath this brick.

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This is a very good picture taken during the winter, it's very good illustration of the multiple terraces that you would see in the different access points on the refuse pile, what makes these referees piles dangerous, is that it attracts visitors and

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attracts a TV riders to be trust passing on top of the property, getting hurt and that's what makes us the priority to mind site prior to construction so you know if all the vegetation in the foliage off.

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You can see some of the where the snow is laying on the benches it just really shows in the depth and complexity of the refuse power and how steep but was and post to the homes.

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This. This is a picture, don't have too many of them but this is a picture of the John's Tom palpable flood trail Paul. This was the power that was later added to the project, approximately six acres in this so this was a picture that was taken, I believe

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this was the project start in 2016, but this Paul was added around 2017 from reclamation.

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Alright, so it's quick review.

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Getting back to the main part that I have covered here, we're talking about specifically, the total for abandoned mine site the 70 acres of the refuse power.

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I'm not getting into the title five site the act of mine site where it was, which was modified to be a basically a landfill for the refuse pile. So this slide is really going over I kind of hinted on before when I was showing you the other award winning

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projects we have to work on mine refuse.

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You know there's three methods you can work to reclaim the mind site. The first site could be, could the refuse the dug up and be used as fuel fuel at a cogent facility, and if you're not familiar with the code Jen, a coach and facilities kind of like

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a power station, but a code generation facility basically burns waste coal. Whenever refuse powers are created the refuse panels are created basically of coal reject from a deep mind, an underground mind site, and they go after the high beats you call

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that was used, and prior 1977 to make steel to support our program to support the nation and making still about the fight the world wars within the code generation facility and the power industry or pose being used for energy, you know the turn the lights

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on, on the heat homes and whatnot so remind refuse, it's the waste call that wasn't utilized to make a steel. And so to do a cogent project you need to have, you know, high be to you and low so for content through drilling, it was determined that the

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you was too low, and the sulfur contents too high, so we could not send it to a cogent. So, the third method would be the regraded and soul kept on site. We could not do that as well because it was too steep out there so we had to go for the middle method

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was to dig up the referees pile and send it to a permanent site.

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So I did go over good bit of information so I'm going to pause right now for any questions.

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Great. Thanks, Patrick. Yeah, we had a participant who had a comment that they want to share with you that they can't express how happy it makes them to hear about the success of this site.

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Because they spent time working on the Cambria and Somerset counties acid mind drainage inventory with USGS when they were an undergrad in the mid 90s, and this participant also grew up in Johnstown, and she's just very excited to hear about the success

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and she herself is now hydrologists the USGS.

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So I thought I'd share that comment with you.

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So I know earn felled is a cool site. There is a question of whether your program managers any hard rock mining sites is a primary primarily cool. It's a good question.

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Through since 1977 specifically around the early 1980s 1980 to 1983, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

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The beer have abandoned mine recommendation, my program.

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I'm starting at early 80s, the program for total four is specifically only for coal mine, abandoned coal mine sites. Hard Rock mine sites is not a program that's fully funded for the end in mind recommendation.

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However, we do have other instances of mining for like other industrial minerals in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where it's very similar to an abandoned coal mine site.

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It's just that the mineral that was distracted abandoned left in place, many years ago could have been a different or like those in the iron ore mine.

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Funding is not available in Pennsylvania for those sites, specifically because coal mining and the abandoned mine land program. The main supporting financial mechanism to do a band of mine reclamation in Pennsylvania in the nation for better coal mining

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is a fee, that's placed on active coal mines that has been reauthorized recently, it's utilize to reclaim a band of mine sites the funding that is for other non pole sites.

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Hard Rock Mining Reclamation has not been fully funded but with the new bipartisan infrastructure bill that was passed by both the sun in the house. Recently, and then signed by the president couple weeks ago, there is a section that does discuss abandoned

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hard rock sites. The exact way, or in the financial avenue for those sites to be reclaimed and funded.

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The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation enforcement SMRT are also known as OSM, they need to further interpret that the law the new bipartisan infrastructure bill to see how hard rock mining can be funded on a plane in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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It does exist, of the history of our program is more associated with a band and coal mines above surface and underground.

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Okay. Great. Thanks, Patrick.

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Um, I know you showed some options on your summary slide there for reclamation but this question came in on it was wondering if the approach that you took it earned felled was a special case or.

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This was a common approach us for mining sites in Pennsylvania.

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Um, this side of this our reclamation method was the middle one here.

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It was a special case. And I'm going to get into the next couple slides but the three methods were those are your basic methods for reclamation of abandoned mine coal mine refuse sites.

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The, the idea on the concept of digging up the refuse, and transporting it to a permitted facility for refuse disposal.

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The first option was to dig it up. We advertised a little bit competitive bid and the bids came in very high, that would basically take it to a landfill.

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You can also dig up the band The mind refuse, and possibly find other band in mind mine sites where you have what we call co high wall site, it could be a cold cut into the ground from the surface, and you have basically like 100 foot high high wall.

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That could be 50 or hundred feet high and you have mine spoil cast away you have like a pit or avoid those sites. There could also be utilized underneath this macro law to dispose mine refuse because it's all mine materials.

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That wasn't economical and needed we didn't really have that close by. This was a special case of taken in a title five active mind surface mind permitted site that you're going to see here upcoming to have the Surface Mining permit, modify, to accept

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refuse, and they haven't been with Jacqueline edition. So would be able to neutralize acidic properties out of the refuse pile to neutralize it, in effect, make it like a landfill. So that's what you're going to see here on the upcoming slides and what we did here.

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Okay, great. We have one more question I see in the queue.

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This this participant is curious about the houses and earn felled and was wondering where they there before or after the refuse refuse piles were started.

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So that's gold mines very right yeah look like here in 2012 this is conditions of the refuse area, you here's a picture of 1956 you know it's basically an industrial town you have a lot of row homes homes that supported the mining industry.

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Ah, you know, I do not have the information to show you how many homes were there before the power, and how many homes were there after the power, the history of the refuse power does they does be does date back to 1903.

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That's one in this area.

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The mining and disposal of the refuse material began in 1903 on the existing ground to create this massive 68 or refuse power.

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They stopped the positive materials in the early 1970s.

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So I do not have a good count of how many homes were there before and after.

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But it's it's a very populated area, you know in western Pennsylvania. It's a classic coal mining town.

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So that would be my best answer response.

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You can either make sense.

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And so those are the questions I'm seeing now I just want to remind the participants you can continue to add your questions or comments in the q amp a and when we pause again we will queue them up.

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So go ahead, Patrick. Okay, I'll keep on going here.

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So, what I wanted to go over is now the, I spent some time talking about the preconstruction conditions of the ML site, which was right in here, reference power one roof is powerful too, and the John's Tom path of the flood trail POW.

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This photo was taken in 2019 during construction, so you can see the progress, a lot of project progress that was made on the refuse bow. And during 2019, this was the outlining the disposal area the Surface Mining permit the actual surface mind permit.

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Like I said before is over some someone hundred acres.

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And the mining that was done was roughly about 200 acres, and then have that 200 acres this yellow area is showing what was amended in the surface mind permit as a refuge disposal area.

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As part of our ML reclamation contract, a whole road had to be constructed to connect the two sites so that's showing you that, but I want to show a little bit of a pre construction conditions of the surface mind site.

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Prior to construction so I'm gonna go to the next slide. And that's what it looked like at the time. So here in 2012, this photo you can see where it was, at the time of 2012, the mining company that was Surface Mining multiple calls seems was the Empire

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mining company again that was Empire mining company. They were permitted by the Commonwealth, the DP to mind the upper containing the upper Freeport and the lower Freeport Colson, you can kind of see that in this photo, this just happened to be in one

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of the Aereo blinks in 2012 and we're isolating nerve felt, and in the distance was the surface mine permit site on over here you can see the, the John's Tom path from the flood trail pow, and this is the pattern felt right in here.

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So getting back to what I was showing you before this because this is a photo of 2019 showing the progression.

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And this is where I want to get into the story of a timeline, and I could you know spout this out but I rather, you know, show it to you and show you can connect the dots and gonna go through and I don't want to read this word for word because you can

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reference this you know another time but so in 2008, mind you, that the AML refuse pile project didn't begin until 2016 but in 2008. As I mentioned before Empire mining, they were Surface Mining on a title five active mind site regulated by our district

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mining office not my office of the active mining that was going on in the Surface Mining permit.

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Then, go over to my site the HTML site in 2013, we advertise the contract.

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Take the refuse power in to remove it from the site and dispose of it and a permanent disposal. So, you see the bids were very high 98.9 we did not have that $98.9 million on our budget to do that.

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So, in the timeline. Then in 2014, the mind, the Surface Mining permit site. The over 700 acre site. Not are 70 acre HTML refuse site at the active site.

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It was transferred to rosebud mining in 2014 rosebud was familiar with our problems that we had with the high bid that we receive we were trying to remove the refuse.

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Our ml office my office the title for site and rosebud mining, we worked on an agreement to amend their surface mine permit for them to accept mine refuse at that value $5 and 14 cents cubic yard to accept mine refuse, and also to blend with Apple.

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In addition, the additional mine refuse at the surface mine permit site. I will also help the final contours, because whenever you're at a surface mind site and active mind site that 246.6 acres of the seven and 26.3 permanent site.

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The Empire mind company was for coal. And so there was a void there, the mind refuse would help the final recommendation plan of the Surface Mining permit site.

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Right. So then after that we redid the design, and we advertised it.

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Knowing that whoever the little bit contractor would be to reclaim the refuse power, they would be working with rosebud mining, to dispose the mind refuse at their surface mind permanent site rosebud mining company was able to be certified and clear to

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bid on our XML reclamation contract and they had that they submitted the actual low bid of 13.4 as bid value, and it's kind of critical to mention this is as been.

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These were as big numbers because in construction industry, there's always going to be add ons and construction that's going to take an as bit amount and making it as build them out.

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So, what we're looking at. On this contract and 2016 when it was awarded to rosebud mining to work as both, they were always the surface mind operator since they bought since they, they, they took over the surface mind form of Nam fire, they always had

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We worked on an agreement to have them amend their surface mine permit. Luckily enough for them they were the low qualified bitter on the HTML site. I think the next responsible bid came in around 14 million so it was definitely a competitive process.

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So what this competitive process when you take our as been estimated refuse disposal fee, when you take five point 14 cubic $5 and 14 cents for the cubic yards I had to leave the refuse pile as as been valued came in around $12.7 million is what the agreement

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would be, and then to do the construction work any little bit contractor just coincidentally rosebud beat everybody out, they got the construction contract for 13.4.

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So when you add two together as been values there in 2016, there's a significant cost savings between $26.1 million, and $98.9 million.

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I know on a previous slide, I was showing you and as built value. There was around 35 million.

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That was because of the addition of the Johnstown flood trail path refuse power.

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So, there's still a cost savings between $35 million, and $98 million. Back in 2013. So roughly save 64% of that cost savings to remove the reference power.

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So that's a lot of words.

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And I thought it was just more effective to show you all the words and the dates to show you how these two sites. We're now joined the tag referees power one reference power to the construction work order of this refuse power, here's your almost 70 acres

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of refuse going on in the re modified modified surface mine permit the haul road was a contractual item of the reclamation contract.

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That was roughly 5001 year foot haul road to connect the sites.

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Alright, so I did want to pause for any questions I believe because that's a lot of information so I'll pause for any questions now.

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Patrick I don't see any questions coming in.

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So we'll just remind the participants that they can submit questions at any time during the presentation and we'll keep pausing to think you can go ahead.

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Okay, we'll keep on going.

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you can pull up all these videos herself. So, I work in a chronology bubble format here, and we got to make sure that this right here.

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Alright, so we are at the groundbreaking video, and I'm going to play this short video to show you what the site looked like in 2016 for groundbreaking big.

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Okay, here we go.

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One of the things we want to do by being here and Ehrenfeld the very first sight of this mind reclamation program that we hope will expand well before is shout from the tops of these refuse files that this place is looking to the future is places looking

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to remove some of these blights on their landscape, and welcome everybody to this wonderful community and we know that this is a great place to make that happen, people be able to look at their back doors.

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It's nice. They'll be able to shed in their backyards, there will be no water in their backyards. And I hope this is just the beginning in the future burn film.

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We're about changing the world making a difference here in earn founders, as well as sites across the state. One of the centerpieces of the wolf administration approach to environment is looking for that, that space where environment and economic development

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come together and we can really use environmental resources and environmental opportunity to drive job creation job growth economic development.

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It's great to see what's going on in our town, maybe making things for the future.

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Okay, so that that was the condition of the, of our site, a couple months after the contractor started, let me know. Early in the spring of 2016, and that was a ceremony in August, where, you know, we had all the officials there.

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You know the signify the beginning of the contract, even though they were ongoing for a couple months and that's what we saw in the background.

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So, so now we're into during construction additions of the ML site the rescue site the paddle for abandoned mind site 70 acres, not to be confused with the 250 some disposal site on the act of surface mining permit.

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So, this is during construction picture that was taken in June of 2016.

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Basically at the top of refuse Powell number one, we use that 10 rosebud mining use 10 Caterpillar triple seven rock trucks, there an operation, every work day.

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Here's another picture at the top of the refuse pile.

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Number one later in October of 2016. You can see the progression that rosebud made are from the top of the pile downward meaning that this was all refuse at one point, if you were at the toe.

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Other, the refuse at this point, you know this was all refuse up to the top into the screen, and they had to operate that they can only have roughly like six acres open at a time but mustard, and they'd have to see a mulcher before they can disturb another

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And they'd have to see a mulcher before they can disturb another six acres.

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Here's another picture at the top of the refuse pop. Number one later in October 2016. The 10 Brock trucks made 20 trips per day to a 200 truck daily total maximum trip.

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So even though the haul road was construction at a length of 5001 your feet, the actual distance from the center of the HTML site, the total for site the abandoned mine site to the center of the disposal site, which is the act of total five Surface Mining

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permit site was around 2.4 miles so 5000 linear feet that's a little over a mile, but centroid only, that's a word from the HTML site and the surface mine permit site was over, you know almost two and a half miles.

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Now this is a great photo here and arrow bleak, that we have here.

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Get some of my notes here. What I want to discuss so this is an aerial bleak taken through the first year of construction in April 2017.

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This shows you the work that had Jeffrey's power one right here above railroad Street.

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You can see in the distance of the 5000 linear foot haul road that took us up to the surface mine permit site. So this reclamation process here at RML paddled for the end in mind site was the refuse excavation and hauling to the disposal site.

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They had on site top soil excavation, you would start new with the store the top soil.

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They would play Sakhalin edition.

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Then line fertilize and seen a mulching so after your instruction, you can see the refuse that was removed it being vegetated, and the more refuse still left to go and this was just refuse Powell number one.

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At this time, rosebud mining did not start on refuse pile number two which was below railroad Street. And as I mentioned before, this was the remnants of the area that was burnt can see some orange, so the soil here how to be remediated so the mind refuse,

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again, it was placed foreign under from underground mining activities, it was placed on this area on the existing topography. So, prior to 1903. This would have been all, you know, like like you know forest land, above the town of Bernfeld, and they wiped

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out the trees, and on the regular ground, the grade of the potter fee they started placing the the mind refuse in layers all the way up to the top of the mountain here.

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So the way it was placed with rain events, it came very unstable, that led to us to do the project, we start design in early.

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2012 leading up to the start of construction in 2016 and get some more photos here to go over. I here's a better picture illustrating the location of the hall room that connected the title for a band of mine line of Banda Milan site and I'll refuse power

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to the top of the western portion of refuse power, one to the surface mine permit title five sites so this is what I'm saying is the western portion of refuse power number one, all this up to here was all refuse and you can follow the red dot and now

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the refuse power in this area is removed.

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Hold up to the surface mine permit sites a little bit off the screen, but that's where the refuse went.

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Now this is down on refuse Powell number one, low railroad street so here in February of 2018 remind you that the project again in 2016 so in 2018.

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We started working on removing the refuse power and number two, they are pulling it away from the little Connemara river in this area which means this project specialized seven beginning, we call this an XML pilot program project in 2016.

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It was called the band The mind land economic revitalization that is Ambler. So, this refuse power in this area here was pulled back from the river. It was recreated in an engineered fashion, and then neutralized without going addition and then this area

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is repurposed as a memorial park and a trailhead for the bike trail that was sharing the road conditions of railroad Street, so we moved that we were able to relocate this trailhead to a safer stop condition at the bridge, and then the community was able

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to utilize this area as a community park, other than having it being, you know reclaimed refuse seated in March. So this area is now being utilized by the community.

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Here's another picture, Eric Fisher that worked perform the reference poem number two in April of 2019.

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Another improvement. that was a benefit with the mind refuse that went all the way down to the river, and the way it was situated. It also impeded the floodplain.

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So, when we removed the refuse and regraded it and created, you'll see some other photos with this further construction work being done, you'll see how the we improve the floodplain in this area around a little corner more River.

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It was approved by over an acre.

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So, now, here on reference pond number one. This is during July of 2019 at the now removed and replaced refuse pile number one. Here in this picture is the 775 foot long by 17 feet wide gaming basket channel that accepts and conveys all the storm water

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drainage.

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Throughout the reclaimed area of reference pile number one, there was a total of six drainage benches, for those drainage benches drain to the Gambian rock basket that you're seeing here on this construction picture.

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Are you seeing here on this construction picture. Here's another picture of the give you basket in July of 2019 at the base.

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You know, it's now the referees power being removed to reclaim.

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This gaming rock channel basket was designed to accept the hundred year design storm frequency, with the storm water coming off the power.

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Here in October 2019 is at the base of the hour claimed reference Problem number one.

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That was the 50 some acre refuse power. This is a picture illustrating the season the mulching of the work that was ongoing.

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Yeah, okay. And again here in October 2019 the base of the now reclaim Rufus Paul number one.

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Just further your stream the signal mulching work.

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Unfortunately, with the ad on the judge John's Tom path of the flood trope how soon as one of the last things that was done.

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I only have pictures of the work, ongoing that would happen in early 2020 prior to when Kevin hit.

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So this is the work being done removing the refuse power, I showed you a picture earlier and I showed you a lot of pictures. This is a six eight or refuse power that it was eroding on to the Johnstown blood trail path that's below power.

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removed, it's no longer negatively impacting the trail riders and everybody who was recreating on the trail. This is a another picture of the jobs top half of the flood Trump our April 2020 at the time this picture of the entire six acre refuse power

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was removed and the area would then be seated a mulch, but again I didn't have any pictures of that close up.

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Now I want to move over to the construction conditions on the title five. The act of surface mine permit that rosebud acquired off of the and fire mining company.

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So, the one slide I have all that information on there and should back in early 2008 or whenever it was an empire was mining the call and then the surface mine site over 250 acres.

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And then they mined all the day could get, and then they transfer the permit and rosebud to go with the permit. So the conditions during the time of our reclamation contract to be disposed under the surface mind site was more of a boy.

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So this is a good photo, showing the surface mind permit the tight acted the active surface mind site title five, not to be confused with the title for abandoned mine site that was created by a pre 77 mind condition of disposing the mind refuse at the

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HTML site. This site here is a post 77 active mind site. That was the permit was revised to accept the mind, refuse from our email contract to be blended with alcohol in addition.

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So this is the current condition of that site and 2016, when the two sides were basically married together.

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So this is a great photo. Here's a picture of the surface mine refuse disposal area during construction of 2017.

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This the disposal process of bringing the mind refuse over to the act of surface mind site.

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The refuse was hauled to the site by this 10 Caterpillar triple seven trucks. The refuse was spread by Caterpillar do 11 bulldozers, and two foot layers.

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The refuse was covered by three inches of back well In addition, and then it was contacted by Caterpillar 815 contractors.

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This process was repeated until all the refuse from the HTML site was disposed here in the surface mine permit site. So as you can see in here, layers of the refuse being in place, and then regurgitate it on the slopes.

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And then you have the Auckland edition so every roughly two feet you have this layering of mine refuse Auckland edition compaction again my refuse excellent addition compaction.

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So you have the neutralizing benefit of the ankle. In addition, with the acidic mind refuse and also Red Dog to neutralize any groundwater and surface rainwater that were naked through the disclosed area.

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And, of course, you have a vegetative cap and so as the reclaim the refuse over here in the surface mind permit site and placed you had I believe it was a heaven on the next slide, I think it was about a foot of yeah it was one foot of tops of one foot

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of topsoil cover on site material, they get the vegetation so this is another great illustration. Here's a picture of the Surface Mining permit refuse disposal area during construction of 2019.

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As you can see the layering progress progress to accept all the refuse the top of the slides left sides lives in the field are covered with one foot of on site spoiling material that was seen it in mulched.

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So you can just see the progress that it made over three on three years at this point right here.

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Ah, so, um, so after the first year of construction there was from 2016 2017.

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The project won an award in the project wasn't even done yet.

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won the award of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council in 2017.

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And I have a video to show you. It's a good video to show you a lot of the during construction conditions, and the main person in this video is Dave gangly at the time he worked for rosebud mining and this video was presented in the side think the summer

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of 2017 signifies award. So let me jump out of this to the video.

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This one.

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Go.

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We're in the town of Ehrenfeld Pennsylvania is approximately 10 miles north of Johnstown PA.

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Other The site is, is the banner refuse power. It was associated with the Pennsylvania colon coke mines that were up in about 1903.

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The mind into the 1960s. What they do is the, they'll either wash the coal or screen a cold and try to get as many of the impurities out of it as possible.

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In the refuse power is where you know these, you know the material that's generated through the cleaning process is dumped. There's approximately 3.2 million tons of abandoned refuse material on a power of posed several issues to the tariff out over the

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course of the years they had stability issues.

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And then also, you know, the pot was hot, it was burner. So there was fumes of what's coming off of off of the power affecting the neighboring houses.

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There was, you know, some timeframes where, you know, different parts of the power was sliding. It was creating drainage problems.

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You know, at the bottom of Second Street to some residents. In, there was a couple houses that are within 20 feet of the toe the pile. So, you know, with the stability and steep side slopes of the pile.

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You know was hazardous. The project that we move in the power was basically it's, you know, there's two phases. Number one, the be overnight Banda mines recommendations they had to find a spot to move the material to rose by mining entered into an agreement

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with them to accept that product under a license agreement.

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The second part of the power was the physical movement of the refuse power that's behind us, you know from this block over to Roseburg bindings disposal area.

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So, first phase of the project was the connected to sites. So there was a one mile haul road. It was constructed from raised beds disposal site, over to the active area that we were going to be working in, and we're moving approximately, 12,000 yards

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per day.

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The material in moved approximately, 60% of the material that was identified in the contract. There's 3.2 million tons of refuse material will be moved.

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That equates to 2.4 million cubic yards, and we moved again about 60% of that. And in that five and a half month period, wants to refuse materials moved, we moved, then there's 30, tons per acre of live that's added to the abandoned site.

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In addition to that, once the materials move to the disposal site.

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On the disposal and as well.

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What you see behind us is an area this big completed.

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As we expose the five acres of surface lie and then we come into VC thin client. So the green area you see is, it was completed.

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That was planet around September.

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The project will restart it.

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Right around July 1.

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And then we're hoping to get the rest of the material move by next spring.

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What's the Banda refuse powers removed. There should be a dramatic improvement in the water quality. That's hitting the tributaries the carnival river is a just a large amount of water the tip of trading bath with power, picking up metals and contaminants.

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And once the once removed.

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You know the contaminants that's being picked up is going to be eliminated in the water quality should again be greatly improved.

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Okay, um, I thought that was a good, sort of like during construction video and also taking the opportunity to also kind of archive. You know that. We're on our way.

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you know, gaining momentum on the construction, so I think this is where I'm going to pause next for any questions. So we are at the phase of during construction, we're going to be in the homestretch final conditions but I'll pause right now to answer

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any questions you agree, yeah, there were a couple questions that came in on.

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So I guess there is a question about if there's been any, there was any significant rainfall and flooding events that have occurred or large flow events.

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Since installing the Gambian rock drains and if so how did they hold up. Yeah, they help them find me the project's been complete now since late.

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2020, you know, our of the in the mind program, we have an investigation sections that handles complaints on a daily basis. I am not aware familiar with any posts construction conditions of the gaming rock basket, or any other vegetated areas of the completed

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project.

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Okay, great, another participant wants to know if there were any engineering controls us to protect the homes closest to the where the work was being done from fugitive duster accidental settlement movement during the excavation.

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Yeah, our contracts are, are there for like we have water. Water trucks.

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The haul road that connected the site.

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It had to be maintained and also the suppression of that haul road was a problem during construction. So for the contract and for environmental controls they had a wet the road down to take care of that for refuse powers before their reclaimed and as

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they are set up there for many years, there's always that dust issue that when it gets very windy on a refuse power that was placed prior to 77 by mind company that does generate its own dust here for the construction contract and you have an active project

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with a contractor out there. We have terms and conditions in the contract, specifically the one of the main problems was the hall room because they excavated.

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The area, and they had to keep that dust suppression under control so they didn't have a water truck to do that.

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Someone also the refuse power area had a had meds permit for Earth disturbance. So we did have ns controls in to filter out sediment, that would be leaving the site because of the excavation.

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You know, we had said ponds that were constructed along the whole road, it's silt sock. and then you have your final vegetation. I will see it in a mulching so we had those controls in place.

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Okay, great. Yeah, I guess I'm a question along the lines of the seeding, were there any phytoremediation techniques considered or applied at the site.

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What kind of techniques was that again phytoremediation like remediation with plants.

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Okay.

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Yeah, the vegetation for wild grasses, you're going to see that coming here in the post construction photos. We did have some tree planting as well. When it comes to refuse files in this method of reclaiming the refuse powered by digging it all up, getting

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back down to original ground.

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The negative impacts of the refuse set of properties of the mind refuse, you would have to remediate the original ground with x and Auckland properties of lining and fertilizing to get the, you know the plants to grow and also for tree planting we did

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do some tree planting as well. Other methods of Reclamation to refuse piles. If you are just regraded and caffeine refuse pals planting trees on refuse piles of something that's not promoted.

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You know, it's good, given the refuse is still there it's still has the ability to catch on fire. So if you plan on much trees on a regraded remoulded in cap refuse power.

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That's not a good idea you still have the vegetated of course but in this method of Reclamation the refuse powers of was removed, so I re vegetation plan was both.

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Some tree planting and so a seed in the soul supplements. I don't know if the question had a question about bio application of biosolids but that's not what we did here.

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Okay. Great. Thanks.

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Um, yeah I think you answered most of the questions that have come in, I do want to do a time check with you. Um, you know, for delivering your material and showing more videos, I'd say maybe you have about another 35 minutes, you know, to be able to

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include more pauses for questions. Yeah, I guess, bring it up so I keep on going right thanks Patrick. Okay.

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Alrighty, so.

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Yeah, so now we're impressed can post construction conditions. I have these slides but I really like to get through the videos because videos are much better than you hearing, listening to me and looking at pictures but I'll do my best.

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From this picture was taken in June of 2020. Here's where the 7.7 acre refuse Paul number two used to be this reclaim there is now a moral Park and community does arm Phil and South Fork is also now a trailhead the downtown path of the flood trail.

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So you can see here, you see your vegetation in the top coats nice and flat. It's for the memorial park that is there, and in this area. The refuse power wasn't like dug up removed and all the way to the SMP because we had some roadway issues.

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So in this area. The refuse power was removed from the stream embankment increase the flood the flood plain by an acre. And we recreated the area to make it be a usable space for the Amur program for economic development and recreation for the surrounding

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communities.

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Here's another picture taken of that reclaimed area of refuge Powell number two though it's below railroad street again in June of 2020. Again this reclaim There is also improve the floodplain little car my river by up to an acre.

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Now here on refuse pile number one above row streets going to be basically a pan from like left to right. These are the following pictures of the reclaimed 55.8 acres of refuse Powell number one, the entire reference bow had been removed and Hall and

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disposed and the surface mine permit disposal area. This picture in the following pictures were taken in June of 2020, following the Western and banking area of the Southern bank MIT area to the adjacent railroad street so it's kind of like wrapping around

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the pile.

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Really good pictures here as you go around.

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Have a good video this as well calm like as a drive by the time on the show it.

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Go. And I told you to remember that one house, so this is photos good illustration of a house that was located five feet from the base what once was the refuse pal number one, that refuse with all the way right in the here.

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So now, the refuse was kind of like up all the way up to the tree line. Now the people who live there, they don't have this big refuse power, you know, any longer.

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And it's all grass and metal behind them.

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Here's the southern bank of the roughest repo area that's our claim number one you can see that gave me and basket channel handling stormwater along rubber extreme.

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Then a further picture at the very end with some routing of a channel handling storm water.

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Okay, so not illustrate the post construction conditions over at the surface mining permit the refuse disposal site. The act of mine site that was modified to accept the mind refuse.

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So these are the post construction conditions there in June of 2012.

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Very, very good reclamation of grass.

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See the embankment area there you can kind of see the layering as they work, you know they were contemporaneous fashion. They were reclaiming and re vegetating as they went.

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Okay.

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And I'm going to pause here now for any post construction questions I still have some more slides but any questions. I know we had some questions about the gaming basket the conditions and the soils with the revenue through vegetation.

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We answer some of those but any more questions before I continue.

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There's not one, one question about water quality monitor monitoring and if that's typically conducted during or after construction and, you know, have there been improvements in the AMP D conditions observed, since the removal.

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Somebody reading my mind, I want to go to the next slide show you. Okay, great.

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You're this table illustrates the improvement of an unnamed tributary to work on MMA at the HTML site that flew to Jason to refuse Problem number one if you remember in the beginning.

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Some of the pre construction conditions where I mentioned how the refuse power of believers the western embankment. It was disposed but Pennsylvania calling company CO and coat company.

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Basically they moved the stream by disposing the refuse into the unnamed tributary in the push the stream close to the houses the unnamed tributary to wall Carnival, not the large little Connemara river, that's at the base of the southern part of the

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pow, this is the western bank and so what you see is the water quality of the anointing tributary above the refuse pop.

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You know here showing the pH the alkalinity, a hot acidity.

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Got some low numbers, and low alkalinity hot acidity. And then the same tributary below the refuse power. And after we started the recommendation so the reclamation started in April of 2016.

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the reclaimed now reclaimed area of the reference pal, gone. You see the pH improved, up to like the seven some fives. You see how we have now alkalinity in the water higher numbers in the hot acidity being removed.

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So this is the watershed improvement at the ML site. Not sure if the question was specifically to the HTML site. But on this next screen you see the improvement at the surface mind side as well.

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You have a there was a monitoring point there on the surface minor of the surface mind permit, where you see, once that the red Earth filled refuse started coming to the surface mind site with the echo in addition, you can see the pH ranges, improve up

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into the higher sevens. You can see the introduction of more alkalinity and the reduction of the hot acidity.

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And so that was a good you know good timely question from this right here, I'll pause again, if there was any other associated questions for that nothing's coming.

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No, nothing's coming. Okay, so I hope that should answer the question and it will help me move this along. So, so going on here now post construction conditions. So to help build better illustrate post construct conditions.

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I got two videos to play here to show what it was like there and I gotta get back out to their picture here. Alright so this is a promotional video again it's talking about ml pilot, that was the old name, the number now Goodbye, Amber.

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And this is the most I sent an email pilot and over a year, because I've trained myself to see ama ama ama. So here we go.

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I said al pilot and over a year, because I've trained myself to see Mr. Mr family. So here we go. This is the first female pilot project in the nation Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was awarded for 2016 pilot funding to take an HTML site reclaim it and

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repurpose it for economic development, and not benefit for recreational use of the surrounding community, and also to improve property value here in arm felt.

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This is a 62 acre site. And there was over 3.2 million tons of mine and related materials, two years ago, this was all refuse, you will not have any sky behind me, it was all mine refuse, black, gray refuse, we can take an area that people, they have

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grown up to and they're just used to it, and then we can change it we can change the landscape of the Commonwealth by taking these abandoned mine lands that should not be in existence that we're for profit by mining companies prior to 1977 and with the

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Amanda mine land fund, we can restore these properties back to the way nature intended them to be the aesthetic appearance of the town has been improved with the refuse material removed.

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It's restoring the ground back the way it used to be in a safe now.

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Okay.

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Yeah, and that was sort of like also conditions during construction, they had the same 62 acres, but then we did add the other refuse pile. The mood us up closer to a little bit bigger number of the extra 66 acres.

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Another good post construction. That video is this drive by I don't think I have to play at all.

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But this is really good and some of this video is used in that promotional video, so I can kind of just just just get you a good view of being up in the reclaimed area was close to this one Cemetery in the western part of the reference pile and how it

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wraps all the way around to the front. So I think I can kind of speak through this turned off the, the audio because it was, you know, just me driving, and you can like here.

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So as you get around. There's, you saw some of the photos.

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You know some of the still photos and the picture, but now they're basically doing a drive by there's the stream and the ending tributary down here at the base.

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The refuse was all the way.

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It's because I'm a different format, but the refuse you know as a boat all the way down, and this was all black and gray refuse, and now it's all vegetated, it's contoured better than what it was to reduce and eliminate erosion of CO finds into the stream

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sport.

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In all in this area you have the other refuse and that's all playing.

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Down here you see some of the DNS controls. Some assault saw those removed.

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The, the unnamed tributary see some of the rip rap.

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Right behind the homes there the stream.

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You know, the people that live the Jason to this pile, you know, behind them was this large black, grey mess you saw on those preconstruction photos.

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You had a TV writers back there.

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You know behind the reference pile, and now it's all removed.

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That blue house.

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Geez, can see in the background.

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Oh I saw it back up the street that blue house would rather not be able to see it.

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It's more further depth there's another road behind these homes and took you up to the house I was at the base of the refuse pile, then here is the trail of the flood path trail bike trail right here at this condition.

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So, what we had was, Here's the new trailhead here.

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Slow people down and get to the, the stop conditions and get across the, this was rich came over that continue on the trail.

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You can see part of refuse pile number one below the main road refuse column number two's above.

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You can see the expansion of the floodplain along the little corner more River.

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Again you had mine refuse all the way to these homes on the screen now it's all reclaimed removed, and now the existing ground. That was underneath the reference piles now vegetated crossing over.

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Well this has been shot here. Yeah.

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Make sure you see this.

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There's a good, good, good view of Nabu claim refuse and that was all the mind refuse waste all the way up to the top of the mountain, all the way back in depth into the photo, or in the video here.

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Back there to a hollow color, or you want to pronounce it, get further outs.

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You know good view the refuse area. All reclaimed, this is showing both, you know the reference column number one, and two, with the Memorial Park, some of the drainage controls over there is your large channel and in on the reference power area and then

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also below parliament to

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taking all the word water down to the world cotton ball.

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Further, kind of put you there in our info driving around the Paul area, and see more of the homes.

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Apologize for the shaky video, that's me driving and videotaping, the same time. Good thing I wasn't talking on the phone tense Jeff.

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All right, so that's not a laughing matter. Just, just don't do that.

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Stop. Anyhow, okay so.

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Let's now get back to the presentation.

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Go. So those are the two videos, the promotional video and the drive by

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another award that the project one.

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Prior to the OSM award. Here the MCC interstate mining compact mission. It's a multi state Governmental Organization supporting the natural resources and environmental protection and mind safety of health interest in its member states, the Commonwealth

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pa is a member of state of the MCC for both titled for a band of mines and title five active coal mining. So, I'm the I MCC also awarded the unfilled project, because it, it brought together title five active mining because it's usually an act of mining

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award, plus a title for with our project with the reference power so this was an annual newsletter that students that they are unfilled project one with rose non mining.

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The and honored.

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Alright so now getting into the OSM 2020 ml work in the competition.

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That's a Harris another screen and this is our project team nomination.

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I authored it was for our director at the time Erica Basel he's retired now are our beer directors Brian Bradley, and the project team that worked on the project from development design permanent, and construction of the competition for the AML awards,

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getting myself confused. There we go. Alright, sorry, looking at too many screens, but the it's pre 77 mind site, so this is specifically for the refuse pile on, you know, because it was a pre 77 area, utilize the surface mine site for the refuse disposal.

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The, the, the award competition.

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You know the top Awards The National Award and then they also have regional awards, because the nation is split up into, you know, 27 ammo programs are nationally ongoing that includes seven in the Appalachian region, they're basically in the eastern

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side of the country, like Pennsylvania, West Virginia. We have there's 10 program, ml programs in the interior region, Alabama was one of them. And then there's 10 Western programs in the western region including three Indian tribes.

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So of those 27 AMO programs.

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They can also submit these nominations so Pennsylvania, if everybody's submitted you are competing against 26 other programs for the National Award. You can also win, like it's saying you can win Appalachian award.

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The interior award or the western award for the National they also have a small projects.

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Small programs competition as well for an email programs that the funding is may not be as large as like this Pennsylvania's and West Virginia is another state, and other programs.

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So, the the judging standards. This is showing what we're what I had, and others have to write these nominations for. And these are the six main areas for for judging standards and how the competition in the, in the rating in what I wanted the, usually

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when I would present this at a conference, I would cover every single section here, but I just highlighted some of the points of the information current technology, the factor was the MPs permit you know is limited six acres at a time on the AML site.

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The difficulty of achieving reclamation during the existing conditions, the phasing was very difficult out there with the close proximity of the homes, handling the storm water.

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There was constant changes of series of berms diversion channels and pipes that conveyed the stormwater, the onsite effectiveness of the project now reclaimed its own 770 acres now reclaimed with grasses and treat planning in that portion of the seven

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refuse power that's now being repurposed as a community park. The funding. That's where we showed that if we were within estimate of 98 million with rebuilding the project work with the surface mind site.

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We significantly reduce the costs by 64%, to have a close out out the door cost of 35.3 million.

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The benefits to the community again refuse pounds or own claimed refused to is now Memorial Park and trailhead another part of the economics of the MR program rosebud during that time they laid off 40 of their miners of their surface mining division.

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Now with the mo contract we, the contract was able to bring back those laid off miners and put them back to work. And then the true definition of a Surface Mining control and reclamation at the title five sites that are mining actively for coal, since

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1977, the ML fee is what's funding that that fee of active mining is what's funding the ML program. So, this was a great project to combine both titled five active mind sites that are permitted post 77 with common modern day controls within a band of

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mind site for recommendation.

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So, what we had was, like I said 2727 programs can compete. And you have 43 total voting voters as as a program, you can vote. That's what these other regions.

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You know that shown over here, but then you have OSM Mario SM they also voted as well. So the reason why we're getting into some of the voting is to go over the award so I'm going to kick back to the video to go over some of the conditions, I forgot to

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share the MCC website. Sorry about that. But that's them, that's your role of working with both title for untitled five, pull money vana mine right, a bit of mine Lancer title for an Active Minds the title five.

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And so, where I am now is the OSM awards video. I kind of give you a preview of how the competition occurs and who's eligible. And now we're going to dive into the rewards program.

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The show you.

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You know how we did it versus other programs in the show you some good illustration so got two cups to play. Here we go.

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Welcome to the 2020 abandoned mine land reclamation a presentation of the US Department of the Interior, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and enforcement.

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For the first time ever, OSM presents these awards virtually. And now, here is OSM Principal Deputy Director.

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Hello, and welcome to rewards program for 2020.

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I'm waiting for this is my pleasure to present this year's awards.

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Due to the worldwide pandemic. We will present the wards a little differently this year.

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There have been many challenges for our nation and for the world. And yet, I'm proud to point out that even during these challenging times reclamation or pre law lands have continued this reclamation in many cases, mirrors the outstanding reclamation

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being conducted on some macro issue Cole permits across the country. And just a moment, we will share with you some of that reclamation our awards are presented in partnership with the National Association of abandoned mine land programs, the National

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Association of State land reclamation.

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We value our partnership with the associations and the states and the tribes and speaking as a former AML Program Manager. I thank you personally for doing what you do.

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And now to the awards, a panel of state and federal reclamation experts chosen winning projects. And what a group of nominations we had. We begin with the Appalachians okay so that this was a standard video for the awards, they went over the different

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awards, but we're just focusing on our own fell. So I'm going to fast forward to where they are and felt good, you know, pre during and post construction videos show 14.

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Now it's time to honor our national award winner. When our project became the entire focus of a small Pennsylvania town, people living there realized that the mind related problems looming above the town could kill off the small community.

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And in contrast, cleaning up the problem comes in a new life for the town that life and death analogy became all too real. Let's take a look.

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Raymond Charles plumber. In the eight plus years he served as mayor, Ray plumber want to just one thing for his little town that someone would remove a 900 foot high Cole waste file from above.

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It was more than just an eyesore. It was an environmental threats, and it kept people away. You have people saying oh why like, I don't want to live there, Ehrenfeld mine operated from 1903 until 1971 but with a lack of oversight the operators the file

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after pile of waste, which polluted the little Panama river, and worse, homes up their yards are just filled with water, you know, mine water, located within 50 feet of the base of a refuse cow that can slide on to their homes, that's what makes it a

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high priority site and extraordinary problem that needed a high priority solution. Then came the news that Pennsylvania would receive a ml pilot program money, designed to clean up sites just like these and stimulate local economies.

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Something Ray plumber, put his faith in. It's great to see that this is all happening and that it's going to be, you know, these refugees powder going to be going.

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Maybe I hope in the future, they'll be something better than what we have now one part of economic development men hiring about 50 out of work miners to do the reclamation their employer rosebud mining company agreed to take the acid generating waste

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file and place it into a local mind void, working with the AML program the company mix the waste with alkaline materials before burying them, and that took care of one environmental threat, we had a surface burning condition as well.

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There was portions of the pile that were on fire you wouldn't see flames, but it was smoldering toxic fumes in the air in it was, you know, there's a detriment to the air quality when workers finished earthmoving, they had transported nearly three and

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a half million cubic yards of waste and Ray plumber believe the other economic development would follow subtle changes people's attitude against the town.

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Now after this is all cleaned up and that I think people really started moving and crews entered the homestretch grading and hydro seating planning nearly 3000 small trees, including white pine sugar maples hemlock and read out, among others.

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But before they can finish the work to men, most closely associated with the project passed away.

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rosebud mining Superintendent of surface operations Mark Kirkpatrick and Mayor, Ray plumber Ehrenfeld is created a memorial for the two men, but now their legacy stands in two ways.

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A newly revitalized Ehrenfeld Pennsylvania, and a 2020 abandoned mine land reclamation national award.

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This project has a couple of other distinctions. This is the first AML pilot project in the nation. It is also the first pilot project to win the Emmy Award and yes we expect to see more, but it has one other distinction.

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For the first time in memory and perhaps in history. This was a unanimous selection as a national award winner. All the judges agreed that this was the most distinctive project in the nation.

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Let's hear from Pennsylvania.

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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a ml program is honored to accept OS Sam's 2020 National abandoned mine reclamation award for the aren't filled call refuse power mediation projects.

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We would like to acknowledge the many AML program staff and other project partners who contributed towards the successful completion of the project.

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I think we can honestly say that this is one of the best years for our word winners in recent memory in the course.

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So, that was good video show you that stay on target here. Now I was just looking yeah word video and then, before and after.

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So, I'm almost wrapping up here, and the.

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Another good for watershed.

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The Aaron felt site was part of what they call her locally as one of the primary seven discharges that impair the little condom on River. So what the reclamation of the NFL pile in address one of those discharges.

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There was also a treatment, active treatment system that was constructed by rosebud probably about 15 years ago the dresses of one of the super seven.

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And also there's other more, there's more drainage further in the watershed that's our next step. So I do want to get into this river reborn YouTube video and you can begin by accessing the, the, the PowerPoint.

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You'll be able to see all these videos.

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But where I'm at here is a little bit more highlighting ml. History of ml and how apply to earn fill, what's next in the little Cannonball River Watershed with Amanda mind reclamation and ask the mind drainage treatment.

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So let me cue this up, we're almost done everybody's hanging in there.

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That's right, Pennsylvania's a unique place in terms of freshwater, second only to Alaska in miles of streams and rivers

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here in Pennsylvania, we're really blessed we have great waterways rivers and streams, lakes and wetlands that crisscross the state, but a huge percentage of them are considered unsafe or fishing and swimming, most of the pollution comes from these old

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abandoned coal mines.

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Pennsylvania is home to an invisible web of underground mine.

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The legacy of a once mighty industry.

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Since the early 1800s the coal mines of Pennsylvania have provided one out of every four tons of coal produced in the United States, energy that powered the Industrial Revolution and the war efforts of World War One and two, the coal industry peaked in

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Pennsylvania in 1918, at 276 million tons, and then began a century long decline.

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Coal mining was regulated first in 1977, and we're now dealing with the legacy of sites that were degraded prior to 1977 240,000 acres of dad toxic land and 5600 miles of dead waterways.

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Okay, so this is a good video that used her and felt on also just talk about of the in the mind reclamation NASA mind drainage all together.

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And relating to the end here but all the pieces of the puzzle are coming together, and almost here got three more clips of this video that show you again, you may if you have time they want to kick back and watch all this video someday because you'll

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have access to it but there's more of

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like the coal mine survive, and the city rebuild Cambria County was really at the heart of production of coal for the Industrial Revolution. I had a lot of scars related to that.

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As the coal industry shrank mine shafts were abandoned and rain water began to fill the underground caverns mixing with exposed metals until the mind overflowed with a toxic slurry of iron, manganese and aluminum poisoned by these metals and unable to

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support life, rivers, like the little economy, were left for dead, but in 2008, the foundation for Pennsylvania watersheds proposed a resurrection for the river, they targeted the seventh largest sources of pollution flowing into the little economy.

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The Super seven.

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Super seven report was done locally in Cambria County, in 2008, describing Seven Deadly discharges along a 13 mile stretch and wherever.

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Okay, so you see yourself is in there.

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St. Michael shaft, 29%, that's now being treated been, it has been treated or maybe 1015 years now, by the Rosebud mining company, and other info refuse refuse pal eliminates that 12% there.

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Two more short clips. Almost I think we're going to be on time there.

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Jen, so I think it would be all right here.

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Oops.

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I mean most places you go like you see all the streams. Now, You see fishing.

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You come here. What do you see, orange, some orange in there, it's up no fishing never going to live it was an orange I'd be down out of the day fishing

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in the town of Ehrenfeld lies another of the super seven, where a mountain of coal waste loomed above the village for decades, a smoldering reminder of the past.

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spoil pile with millions of tons of spoil falling down next to houses, you could see it from the highway, and it was impacting the economic value of the houses in this town.

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So the mayor was very much behind it.

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You can see it, you could see this coming out of the ground and that you could smell it, then it caved in.

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And then once it came in I think that's when this all started about getting rid of that.

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But how do you move 14 million tons of toxic coal waste the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, or dp didn't have the tools or expertise.

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So they enlisted a company with decades of experience digging up large piles of rock.

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Roses rose bad mining.

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We have how much more to go. Hundred 1500 50 but that's gonna be the toughest 35 feet, the urn fell Paul has a complex scenario of surface acidic mind drainage, and then without the project, it's spilling out into river contaminated.

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You have to imagine a bulge or refuse was hero is not all the way down to the river. They have advanced this far to remove over 2.8 million tons of the refuse material.

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The refuse began all the way at the top of the mountain here, and went down to the river, so we're we're standing right now. Two years ago, this would be the middle of the refuse power.

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When the project is complete, the DP will have moved the refuse pile to a nearby mountainside mixing the contaminated soil with limestone to neutralize it, then burying it under layers of earth to keep the metals from escaping.

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That's real good view here construction photo the layering process just wanted to stop point that out. Very good illustration.

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What I'm hoping maybe someday we can have loading down there and have a little store that we could sell stuff in that you know like bait and pack or whatever that's something to bring a little town.

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Instead, open your door knock out and see that big pile going to be green.

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I'm really nice. I think it clean up at Ehrenfeld restored 40% of the town's developable land and put 40 unemployed miners back to work. It's a marvelous example of how pollution can be a beta statewide.

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This was a river that was designated unfixable. It's a great success. And I think we're going to get to the end. Yeah, I'll just stop real quick. He is Solomon.

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Miller shaft that's the next phase of the restoration of the little Cannonball river here, the seven deadly discharges and clean up water wide.

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Alright, and I think, you know, we're kind of running real close on time.

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So what I'm gonna do is trying to wrap this up.

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And there you saw another video where there are the mayor, passed away.

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So what we'll do is let me see. Yeah, what's next for the little carnival.

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Sorry.

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Short sort of a whole whole picture.

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What was brought jobs and money into Cambria county has plagued the county's waterways for decades cold months now abandoned have left rivers and creeks orange cleanup efforts have some running clear again but the work isn't done Haley to better joins

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us live with what's next in this cleanup effort Haley Sean the Department of Environmental Protection has several acid mind drainage treatment sites throughout the county, a new proposed today in Portage would be the key to have the little Cardamom river

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run clear.

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When mining and Portage started to come to a halt in the 1950s, it left its mark on the borough waterways that flow into the little column of river began to run orange with acid mind drainage, this has been going on for so long, this mind water that's

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impacting the fish life and that the the aquatics. And also, it's a detriment to the surrounding community, the Department of Environmental Protection wants to change that with an acid mine drainage treatment site, which would clean up the aftermath of

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the Sandman mine. Miller shaft and he was borehole to centralize it to one point where it can be put into an active treatment system treated than discharged into the river.

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That's another 30% of treated as a mind drainage to be combined with the St. Michael treatment plant, Ottawa.

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The result, a cleaner little condom a river, as 60% of acid mine drainage would be treated you have other recreational opportunities to fish, possibly maybe even have to be like they have in the stony Creek river in Johnstown.

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So with the restored watershed. There's benefits for the community to enjoy, but definitely environmentally to restore the fish and other wildlife within the watershed, the DP hopes to start the project soon, but it will come at a cost active treatment

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plants are in the millions, but it's the continual benefit of the water being treated and restoring the watershed, specifically the little comma next steps for the project include the DP acquiring the land abandoned mine land funding and government funding

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would cover the cost. Reporting live in the studio, Haley data, six news.

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Okay. Um, so we are at the end now is the perfect time to replace your windows Renewal by Andersen has amazing.

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Sorry, I'm getting lost in the tabs.

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There we go. All right, there we go, finish line.

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And that was a video produced last year about the little column off with the next project and the watershed with the Portage as in mind your industry.

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So that concludes the presentation, some more questions here.

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Yeah, thanks Patrick, um, there's a there was a couple questions that came in about, maybe some of the changes in the ecology at the site now that it's been reclaimed is there been any analysis or observation of more animal or native plant species at

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the site.

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Not that I'm aware of. We do so many projects, one after the other, in handling a band of mind land projects and inquiries on a daily basis. I'm not aware of any ongoing monitoring out there, we basically work on a reactionary with, you know, inquiries

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from the general public.

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All I can say as I know that the site stable. What we did is complete.

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And it is improving the watershed.

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Okay.

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And there was a participant that asked about if there were any incentives that were available to the active site that was receiving the mind waste.

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If there was any effect on the site's rehabilitation requirements, well without the surface mine permit site.

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If that's two sites weren't combined with the amo contract rosebud mining, they would have continued finishing up the recommendation there and early, 2014, whenever they took over the permit.

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They would have been required to continue the backfield and seated a mulch it in the be done.

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There was a benefit by having the mind refuse, provide a better topography, for a final condition, and it really was a win win for the ML program, and the Surface Mining act of mining program to have a two projects combined because as, as I demonstrated.

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If we had a standalone reclamation contract for the HTML site.

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It was just way too costly, I mean it was just too costly to reclaim the site, and to be able to reclaim it for $35 million versus $98 million.

651
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We wouldn't ever been able to do this project of both programs weren't combined, you know with the circus act of service mindset is and disposal.

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Okay, great. Um, there was a participant who was wanted to know where you got the alkaline materials that you intermingle join reclamation or the construction specifications, and I was on the site daily so I don't know what the source was exactly, but

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the specifications. In the contract did have requirements of acceptable Aquila material that was utilized to neutralize the acidic properties of the mind refuse.

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All I can say is the contractor met the approved engineered stamp and silt specifications for the adequate and appropriate ACO in addition materials to be utilized the neutralized and civic properties of the mind refuse be great.

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And one last question that came in as this participant is curious how the pilot program has evolved over the years.

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So you almost got me there the MR program.

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It has. It's been basic since 2016, to not only reclaim abandoned mine sites, but to have the end product be repurposed whether it's for economic benefits like a case of earn felt to employ 40 unemployed miners, to have a repurposing of reclaimed area

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to be utilized as a community Memorial Park and improvements to the recreational tre trailhead, and also as in my dreams facilities where water is being treated released to the, to the stream.

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If it wasn't treated the polluted with strings being improved this recreation that is improving more recreation and happen happening at the reclaim the band of mind sites and the treated us mind water sites, the HTML.

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Instead of the heavy amor program, active in the mind line economic revitalization program. It has been ongoing since 2016 every year for Pennsylvania was re initiate it again.

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In 2020, we're working on projects right now with the office to surface minor reclamation enforcement and having them approved for vetting and obtaining environmental clearances for me but in order to get the authorization to proceed from OSM to build

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the projects for construction. We also have now is each year it's roughly 25 to 30 million since 2016, that's just for Pennsylvania that's not for every no program in 2021 there's another $25 million, that's available for us to put projects together.

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That's our next step in the amor program in, in, in the bipartisan infrastructure bill that was passed for 2022, I believe, I believe, at a minimum, there's another 25 million that could be available for the special Amanda Milan economic revitalization

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project projects and these are special projects.

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In addition to the basic, the end of mine reclamation as mine during his projects that we do here on the Commonwealth using federal funding from the office surface mind and recommendation enforcement from the Department of Interior.

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Great, well thank you so much for your presentation today Patrick we received comments from participants that they really appreciated, learning about your project and thank you very much.

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I think I want to turn it over to Jeanne now to wrap this up.

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All right, thank you so very much Michelle let me go ahead and call up a couple of final slides here on the screen and we will close things out for our live audience.

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So the first thing that I want to be sure to do is to just thank the over 130 individuals we had joined us for today's live broadcast as well as to thank both Patrick and Michelle for their time and expertise.

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I'll remind everybody that if you liked today's seminar and you'd like to join us for future ones, Michelle already highlighted the cleanup Information Network in the mining area that she maintains there but you can certainly visit us at clue and.org

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to browse through other technical resources on hazardous waste site characterization and clean up, and I do encourage you to sign up for our free monthly newsletter tech direct which goes out on the first of each month that will highlight free technical

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webinars like today's session.

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One of the other things that I wanted to remind everybody is that copies of the presentation materials and all of those fabulous videos that Patrick was highlighting in his talk are already posted on the seminar homepage.

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So this URL shown at the top of this slide is available from today forward, you'll find tabs along the top which will have information about our presenters, links to download those slides and browse through the websites and videos that were highlighted.

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If you happen to be someone watching the recorded version of today's webinar that URL still works you can type it into your browser and access that web page, based off of your replay of our archive session.

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And one of the most common questions that I get as a technical facilitator is if we offer see user PD ages, while I'm not able to issue those types of formal credit hours, I can provide you with the participation certificate.

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If you fill out our online feedback form. So one of the links on that seminar homepage will be a link to the seminar feedback form, if you fill it out and make sure that you check the box at the very bottom of the form certifying you were here for the

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entire delivery. When you submit that feedback form you'll then immediately have access to a certificate that you can either download or print out will also email a copy of it to you.

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Sometimes it gets stuck in junk emails. So I encourage you to download it right from that confirmation screen when you send in your feedback form. If you happen to be joined by several parties at your location, each person can fill out that feedback form

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on their own, even if they didn't register individually for the session. So I simply ask those of you who did sign up to get the link to the feedback form over to your colleagues so they can fill it out, share their thoughts and get a certificate for

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their own participation. And guess what, for those of you lucky enough to be replaying the recorded version of today's session you can still fill out that feedback form and check that box to get a certificate based off of your replay of the session, you

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should find a link in the online archive format somewhere near the upper right. It should point you to the feedback form.

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So as I've noted here a few times our session was recorded, you'll automatically get an email to the recorded version in about one week, and I encourage you to share that link or that email with other colleagues do you think this would be a valuable expenditure

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of their time.

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And so with that, I'll go ahead and thank our speakers and our organizers one more time for for their technical expertise and knowledge I also want to thank the live audience who asked some really great questions.

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And with that, we'll go ahead and formally conclude today's live broadcast. Thank you so very much for joining us.