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20% Portal Reference Areas (10% Original Reference Area 1 and 10% New Reference Area 2) and the remainder in the Refuse Pile Reference Area. To change the revegetation standards would be arbitrary at this phase of the revegetation. DRMS should not change the standards but be required to meet the standards. We support TR 42 to convert pond 4 to permanent status. These will help us provide for the wildlife that use the property and supports the reclamation plan. We do not agree that EFCI should be allowed to wait until near the end of the reclamation to close all of the bore holes or the wells. These should be found and closed immediately. We expect DRMS to uphold their responsibility of upholding the standards of the revegetation program. EFCI needs to reseed and replant with one gallon shrubs, staked on 3 sides to protect them from wildlife and to water as needed for their survival for the coming five years. Since they would be planting larger specimens of shrubs, the length of time is shortened. Since EFCI has not modified their revegetation plan that is part of their reclamation plan to meet the standards in the 10 years that were allocated, the landowners expect to negotiate a reasonable fee for still not having their land reclaimed and able to be utilized for the coming five years. To supplement the watering program, EFCI could utilize the wells that the landowners are requesting that EFCI dig and make functional before any bond release is considered, We will ask that the DRMS enforce the revegetation standards in the regulations and not allow EFCI to rewrite them or come up with their own percentages and averages so that they are guaranteed to meet them. EFCI's changing the standards is arbitrary and capricious especially at this point of revegetation and reclamation. We hope that you will deny this TR 45 in your staff recommendation in April. Sincerely, Tena Gallagher, representing Linda Saunders, Ted Coulter and Paula Coulter