Wishbone Hill Mine
Permits 01-89-796 & 02-89-796
Project Description
Wishbone Hill Mine, Permit Numbers 01-89-796 & 02-89-796 is owned and operated by Usibelli Coal Mine, Inc. (UCM), P.O. Box 1000, Healy, Alaska 99743. The Project is a surface coal mining and export development proposal for a bituminous coal resource located in the Matanuska Coal Field of South-central Alaska, approximately 40 miles northeast of Anchorage and 10 miles northeast of Palmer, Alaska, near the Buffalo/Soapstone Community.
Final Decision Documents
- 2014 Final Findings of Fact and Decision
- 2014 Appendix A Response to Public Comments
- 2014 Public Notice
Preliminary Decision Documents
Project Documents
- Preface
- Part A: Application and Mine Site Identification
- Part B: Legal, Financial and Compliance Information
- Part C: Environmental Resource Information (complete document 277 MB)
- (Note: Part C is a very large pdf document. Part C is broken out by chapters below for optimal viewing.)
- Part C Title Page
- Chapter I Cultural and Historical Information
- Chapter II Geology
- Chapter III Overburden and Interburden Assessment
- Chapter IV Hydrogeology
- Chapter V Surface Water Hydrology
- Chapter VI Surface and Groundwater Rights and Uses
- Chapter VII Climatological and Air Quality Information
- Chapter VIII Vegetation
- Chapter IX Fish and Aqautic Resources
- Chapter X Wildlife
- Chapter XI Soil Resources
- Chapter XII Land Use Information
- Chapter XIII Subsistance Use of Resources
- Chapter IV Wetlands Evaluation
- Part D: Operation and Reclamation Plan
- Part D: Appendices
- Part E: Special Categories of Mining
- Transmittal Letters
For More Information Contact
Russell Kirkham
Coal Regulatory Program Manager
Division of Mining, Land and Water
550 West 7th Avenue, Suite 920
Anchorage, AK 99501-3577
Anchorage, AK 99501-3577
907 269-8650
