RFP for As-Needed Engineering Services for Abandoned Mine

Land Reclamation

July 23, 2009

Possible Projects• Gob pile reclamation and safeguarding of mine

features at several small abandoned coal mine sites

Oscura Coal Mine

• Safeguarding of hazardous mine openings

Cleveland Mine, Silver City

• Geomorphic landforming and stream restoration measures

Stream restoration at Yankee-Vukonich near Raton

Reclaimed gob piles needing geomorphic reshaping at

Carthage near Socorro

• Design of backfill and blasting closures, bat compatible closures and other structural closures

Bat closures at Lake Valley

• Construction observation

Sugarite gob reclamation near Raton

• Continued monitoring of a coal seam fire and coal gob reclamation in Gallup

Biava Mine fire and coal gob in Gallup

• Inventory and site evaluations of abandoned mine sites

Taking inventory near T or C and Deming

Other Possible Work:

• Collection and testing of soil and rock samples for chemical and physical characteristics

• Geotechnical investigations of subsurface, soil, geological, and hydrogeological conditions

• Plugging of abandoned boreholes

• Beneficial reuse of mine waste materials

Other Possible Work:

• Preparation of environmental assessments, including archaeological studies and reports

• Conducting realty searches and obtaining consents-to-entry from private mineral owners and landowners

• Post-completion project monitoring