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Those activities associated with ongoing and final reclamation of mine disturbance areas <br />include the following: <br />o Removal of any mine structures and facilities not approved for retention to <br />support the postmining land use <br />o Sealing underground openings, boreholes and covering any exposed coal <br />seams <br />o Backfilling and grading of mine disturbance areas. <br />o Replacement of available soil resources <br />o Soil preparation and revegetation of mine disturbance areas <br />o Post -reclamation management <br />Objectives of the noted reclamation activities are twofold; for areas of ongoing surface <br />disturbance, contemporaneous reclamation serves to stabilize disturbance areas, <br />minimize erosion and prevent adverse surface water impacts; the long-term reclamation <br />goal is restoration of all disturbance areas to productivities and land uses equivalent to or <br />greater than those which existed in the pre -mining environment. The Southfield <br />reclamation plan has been designed to successfully meet these objectives and will result <br />in a stable post -mining configuration which blends with surrounding undisturbed terrain <br />and provides environmental values consistent with those which existed prior to mining <br />2.05.4 - 1 a <br />TR -47 Revised 11/17/2016 <br />