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and Associates, Eric Eckberg, Representing BLM, Daniel MacKinnon, representing OSMRE, <br />and Janet Binns, representing CDRMS. Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and the Town of Palisade <br />were notified of the date and time of the inspection, but no representatives from either parry <br />participated, or contacted the Division regarding the inspection. <br />Upon review of the application, permit requirements, and bond release inspection observations, <br />no adequacy concerns were identified. <br />II. CRITERIA AND SCHEDULE FOR BOND RELEASE <br />PHASE I <br />Rule 3.03.1(2)(a) states, "Up to sixty percent of the applicable bond amount shall be released when the <br />permittee successfully completes backfilling, regrading, and drainage control in accordance with the <br />approved reclamation plan." With regard to Phase I bond release, the approved reclamation plan for the <br />Roadside Portals calls for <br />The 4.0 acres requested for release in the SL -10 application have previously received Phase I approval <br />with SL -02 and SL -08. <br />PHASE II <br />Rule 3.03.1(2)(b) states, "Up to eighty-five percent of the applicable bond amount shall be released upon <br />the establishment of vegetation which supports the approved postmining land use and which meets the <br />approved success standard for cover... based on statistically valid data collected during a single year of <br />the liability period". In regard to Phase II bond release, Rule 3.03.2(3)(b) also states, " No more than <br />sixty (60) percent of the bond shall be released so long as the lands to which the release would be <br />applicable are contributing suspended solids to streamflow or runoff outside the permit area in excess of <br />premining levels as determined by baseline data or in excess of levels determined on adjacent nonmined <br />areas". <br />The 4.0 acres requested for final release in SL -10 were previously approved for Phase II bond release <br />with SL -08 and SL -09. <br />PHASE III <br />Rule 3.03.1(2)(c) states that the final portion of performance bond, "shall be released when the permittee <br />has successfully completed all surface coal mining reclamation operations in accordance with this <br />approved reclamation plan, and the final inspection procedures of 3.03.2 have been satisfied. This shall <br />not be before the expiration of the period specified for revegetation responsibility in 3.02.3." Rule <br />3.03.1(4) states, " No bond shall be fully released until all reclamation requirements of these Rules and <br />the Act are fully met...". The same rule goes on to state, " No acreage shall be released from the permit <br />area until all surface coal mining and reclamation operations on that acreage have been completed in <br />accordance with the approved reclamation plan." <br />Roadside Portals C1981-041 SL10 Findings <br />