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Tabetha Lynch, DRMS Page 3 January 20, 2015 Similar to the 2011 ARR, a comparison of areas Oxbow reported to have "reclaimed" in 2012 to the areas reported to be "reclaimed" in 2013 and found it to be 1.02 acres. The following sites were reported to have been "reclaimed" on the 2013 report and were marked as "Existing" on the 2012 report: GVB -LW 12 -02, GVB -LW 17 -OIAB, GVB -LW 17 -01C, GVB - LW 17 -09 and GVB -LW 19 -03 Pilot. The disturbance reported for GVB -LW 10 -05 was reported to have been "reclaimed" in 2012 but was marked as "existing" in 2013. (d) The annual reclamation report forms indicate 14.08 acres have been topsoiled in 2011 and .2 acres had been topsoiled in 2013. The reports do not indicate where these acres are located as required by the rule. (e) Oxbow provides a table in Exhibit 1 of the ARRs indicating which areas have been seeded, their respective acreage and the year they were seeded for both the 2011 and 2013 ARR. Oxbow planted 14.08 acres in 2011. The 2011 report includes two seed invoices from the Granite Seed Company. The species used in the seed mixes are included on the invoices. The approved revegetation plan included in Exhibit 2.05 -E6 of the permit contains three seed mixtures. Two of the seed mixtures are the specific mixtures required to be used on BLM and Forest Service land. One of the mixtures is designed for Juniper Woodlands and Mountain Shrubland habitat. The seed invoice dated 09/29/2010 contains the species required to be planted on BLM land. The invoice dated 11/30/2011 includes a species from the Juniper Woodlands and Mountain Shrubland habitat with one exception. This mixture did not include Pacific Aster, Aster chilensis as required. Based on Map 2.05 -M1, the areas planted in 2011 are located on private property, BLM land and Forest Service land. It is unclear which seed mixture was planted on the each of the sites reported to have been planted in 2011. If Oxbow only used the seed mixture in 2011 from the seed bags from the invoice provided with the report, it does not appear the Forest Service seed mixture was used on pad sites /roads LW- 16 -06, 07 and LW18 -07 that are located on Forest Service land. The 2013 report contains two seed invoices from Granite Seed Company, one for the BLM seed mixture and the other for the Forest Service seed mixture. It is unclear which seed mixture was planted on the each of the sites reported to have been planted in 2013. No augmented seeding was reported in 2011 or 2013.