Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Mining, Land and Water

Commissioner's Decision

• Commissioner's Decision adopting hearing officer decision Wishbone Hill Coal Mining Permits No 01-89-796 & 02-89-796 (PDF)
• Final Recommended Decision (PDF)
• Errata for Final Recommended Decision (PDF)

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 (PDF)
• 2014 Appendix A Response to Public Comments (PDF)
• 2014 Public Notice (PDF)

Preliminary Decision Documents

• 2011 Public Notice (PDF)
• 2011 Preliminary Findings of Fact and Decision (PDF)

Project Documents

• Preface (PDF)
• Part A: Application and Mine Site Identification (PDF)
• Part B: Legal, Financial and Compliance Information (PDF)
• Part C: Environmental Resource Information (complete PDF 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 (PDF)
• Chapter I Cultural and Historical Information (PDF)
• Chapter II Geology (PDF)
• Chapter III Overburden and Interburden Assessment (PDF)
• Chapter IV Hydrogeology(PDF)
• Chapter V Surface Water Hydrology (PDF)
• Chapter VI Surface and Groundwater Rights and Uses (PDF)
• Chapter VII Climatological and Air Quality Information (PDF)
• Chapter VIII Vegetation (PDF)
• Chapter IX Fish and Aqautic Resources (PDF)
• Chapter X Wildlife (PDF)
• Chapter XI Soil Resources (PDF)
• Chapter XII Land Use Information (PDF)
• Chapter XIII Subsistance Use of Resources (PDF)
• Chapter IV Wetlands Evaluation (PDF)
• Part D: Operation and Reclamation Plan (PDF)
• Part D: Appendices (PDF)
• Part E: Special Categories of Mining (PDF)
• Transmittal Letters (PDF)

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