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Control Plan and Designs to account for the additional disturbance. The fourth item pertained to post mine drainage reestablishment and stabilization. This item was addressed during PR07. These four items did not require a response from Trapper. A fourth adequacy review letter was sent to Trapper on January 25, 2013. This letter identified six additional items that needed to be addressed in regards to the proposed revisions to their Ownership and Control information contained in section 1.2.1 of the permit. Trapper responded to these concerns on February 4, 2013. The Division issued a proposed decision to approve RN6 on July 9, 2013. The Decision became final on August 28, 2013. PR7 The Division received the PR7 application on May 21, 2013. As discussed above, the application proposed to increase the permit area by 774.39 acres, from 10,382.30 acres to 11,156.69 acres. No actual disturbance was proposed within the proposed permit expansion area. The application was deemed complete on May 31, 2013. Trapper published a public notice in the Craig Daily Press for a period of four consecutive insertions beginning on June 14, 2013. The Division sent a preliminary adequacy review of PR7 on July 29, 2013. The review consisted of thirty-eight adequacy review items. Several of the items pertained to baseline environmental resource information required by Rule 2.04 for the PR7 expansion area. The rule required a number of baseline items for the entire permit expansion area, regardless of whether mining was proposed within the permit expansion area or not. The rule additionally required a number of baseline items only for areas to be mined within the expansion area. The application for PR7, however, did not request any disturbance within the permit expansion area. Given this, a number of items required by Rule 2.04 for areas to be mined within the permit expansion area were not submitted with PR7. The Division and Trapper agreed that a stipulation would be added to the permit requiring Trapper to submit and obtain approval of an application for a permit revision providing specific environmental resource information required by Rule 2.04 for areas to be mined prior to conducting any surface coal mining operations in the PR7 expansion area (Stipulation No. 22). Adequacy items that required resolving included the need for detailed designs of the reconstructed post-mining drainage channels, clarification of the reclamation cost estimate submitted with the PR7 application, and other textual updates and changes. The Division met with Trapper on November 12, 2013 to discuss the adequacy review items and the reclamation cost estimate. nd adequacy review on January 28, 2014. The Division sent a 2 adequacy review letter on February 27, 2014. The letter had several follow-up adequacy review items based on Trappers rd response. The Division sent a 3 adequacy review letter on February 27, 2014. This letter review letter, the November 12, 2013 meeting and the approval of the SL14 and SL15 Phase I bond release applications in January and February of 2014 respectively. The Division received a ndrd response from Trapper for the 2 and 3 adequacy review letter on July 8, 2014. The letter -up items and included drainage reconstruction designs. The Division sent a fourth adequacy review letter on July 29, 2014 that cited several follow-up items ndrd and 3 adequacy review letters. Also cited in the fourth adequacy review letter were three additional adequacy review items regarding a discrepancy in the accounting of the disturbance acreage at the site. Trapper and the Division met on August th 21, 2014 to discuss the concerns raised in the 4 adequacy review letter specifically regarding drainage reconstruction. Trapper agreed to provide additional information regarding the model 10 Trapper MineJuly 9, 2013