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Peabody Sage Creek Mining Page 3 June 22, 2016 a. Four leks were monitored and the number of males observed at each lek was reported. 2. Golden Eagle Nests: a. The report indicates that three of the original six Golden Eagle nest sites are believed to be destroyed as a result of natural causes and the remaining three sites were inactive during 2015. viii. A 2015 Rill and Gully and Surface Maintenance map with submitted with the 2015 ARR. This information was reviewed and appears consistent with the Division's 2015 inspection reports regarding required maintenance. Acreage Accounting • The 2015 ARR form and page 1 of the repot document indicate the cumulative total acres disturbed is 1,844.00 acres. Based on the Division's instructions from the 2014 ARR, this acreage should be the sum of the acreage disturbed from the Seneca II mine within the PSCM permit area (1766.36 acres) and the total newly disturbed acres (9.6 acres), minus the Phase III bond release acreage (68.79 acres from SL2 and 1026 acres from SU approved for the PSCM). Thus the cumulative total acres disturbed at the site should have been reported to be 681.17 acres (1,766.36 + 9.6 — 68.79 -1026 = 681.17). Please submit a revised ARR form with the correct cumulative total acres disturbed listed. • PSCM reports that 146.4 acres have been re -disturbed according to the ARR form, however page 1 of the report document indicates these acres are former Seneca 11 mine acres that had been approved for Phase III bond release that were approved to be re -disturbed under the PSCM permit. The purpose of the annual reclamation report form is to document actual on the ground disturbance and reclamation, not to report on what acres are approved to be disturbed. Given this, based on the review of previous ARR's the number of acres that have been re -disturbed at the site was reported at 58.2 acers. Please review the number of acres of re -disturbance that had occurred through 2015 and report the actual number of acres that have been re -disturbed. • PSCM reported that a cumulative 68.8 acres have been newly disturbed at the site on the ARR form, however page 1 of the report document indicates that PSCM has been given approval to disturb 68.8 acres. It should be noted that PSCM has been approved to create only 67 acres of new disturbance. Similar to the item above, for the ARR, the cumulative total newly disturbed acres should be the actual on the ground acres that have been newly disturbed though 2015. Based on previous ARR's and the fact that no new disturbance has been reported to have occurred over the last few years, the newly disturbed area should only be 9.6 acres. Please review the number of acres of new disturbance that had occurred through 2015 and report the actual number of acres that have been newly disturbed. • PSCM reports that 1,628.8 acres has been backfilled and graded, topsoiled and seeded. It is unclear how this number was derived. Please explain how this acreage number was determined. • Portions of the SU and SU Phase I and II bond release acreage from the Seneca 11 mine are within the area shown to be disturbed for the PSCM operation. According to previous ARR's, 58.2 acres have been re -disturbed of formally Seneca 11 mine acres. If any of the currently reported acres that had obtained Phase I and 11 bond release have been redisturbed, the number of