Oxford Mining seeks discharge permit for Ohio surface coal mine

摘要

Westmoreland Resource Partners LP unit Oxford Mining Co. LLC is seekingrna permit to discharge fill material into streams in Ohio to facilitate thernrecovery of the Lower Kittanning No. 5 and the Middle Kittanning No. 6 coalrnseams by surface mining.rnThe proposed 74.2-acre Cannon Reserve Surface Mine project is inrnDeavertown and New Lexington, Ohio. According to a public notice filedrnby the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the company requested to dischargerndredged and/or fill material into 0.22 acre of one wetland and 4,448 linearrnfeet of U.S. waters.