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The Southfield Mine is in reclamation only status since operations permanently ceased in <br />2000. EFCI commenced reclamation activities at the mine site in 2001, demolishing <br />surface facilities and sealing mine openings. By 2003, backfilling, regrading, and topsoil <br />replacement was completed according to plans approved by the DRMS. Permanent <br />seeding was completed on all reclaimed areas by October, 2003. Additional revegetation <br />efforts including planting of shrubs and trees in selected areas of the reclaimed site <br />during April, 2004. The coal loadout site located near Florence, Colorado, was similarly <br />reclaimed in 1997, including permanent seeding completed during the same year, then <br />again in 1999. <br />EFCI requested, and the Division subsequently approved, two partial bond releases <br />(SL -03 and SL -04) for the vast majority of the mine site area, and the entirety of the <br />coal loadout site. By revision to the permit (TR -47), the loadout permit area was <br />eliminated. This revision reduced the total permit area at the mine site to approximately <br />1.45 acre, incorporating three sites in long-term reclamation, as follows: the former <br />substation pad and road, roads associated with former monitoring well MW -NW, and the <br />lower portion of the Magpie Permanent Diversion Channel. <br />The following narrative in section 2.05.4 was not revised in TR -47, and is intended <br />primarily for historical information. <br />Reclamation is an integral part of current and future operations for the Southfield Mine. <br />Given that the Southfield Mine is an underground mining operation, mining and <br />reclamation do not occur sequentially. However, those operations associated with <br />ongoing surface disturbance in the coal refuse stockpile area do progress in a logical <br />sequence from construction of drainage and sediment control structures through <br />revegetation and ultimate restoration of associated disturbance areas. Other surface <br />disturbance, including that associated with the mine portals, roads, facilities, loadout, <br />and drainage and sediment control network must remain in place until all associated <br />mining operations have been completed. At that time reclamation of those areas <br />associated with these facilities will be initiated to complete the mining and reclamation <br />cycle. <br />2.05.4-1 <br />TR -47 Revised 11/17/2016 <br />