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C -81 -012) located approximately 8 miles to the west. Coal was unloaded and stored at New Elk <br />in existing silos for subsequent loading onto unit trains for transportation to market. <br />Figure 2: Areas released as a result of Surety Release No. 2 (SL -02) <br />The applicant estimated 1.6 million cubic yards of topsoil and subsoil would be removed. Some <br />of this topsoil was stockpiled for re- application. Very little of the topsoil was live - handled on the <br />surface mine area. <br />As of December 2012, of 155.6 disturbed acres, 149.3 acres had achieved at least phase 1 bond <br />release (122.1 acres phase 1 and 27.2 acres phase 3), the remaining 6.3 acres comprise 4.5 acres <br />of sediment ponds and a 1.8 acre topsoil borrow area (which was left out of the SL -01 bond <br />release application since at the time there was an expectation that topsoil would be needed). A <br />total of 123.9 acres had been topsoiled and seeded. Annual reclamation reports up to and <br />including the 2012 Annual Reclamation Report detail the work completed through December <br />2012. The 2013 Annual Reclamation Report is pending. <br />The revegetation plan has three main objectives. The first is to assist in controlling excessive <br />erosion and sedimentation. The second is to establish a vegetative cover that is ecologically <br />C <br />