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Ilk <br />11 <br />cotter <br />The associated stormwater management controls will be inspected and maintained as <br />necessary to provide control of stormwater run off as described in the Environmental <br />Protection Plan EPP for the JD 6 Mine dated September 2012 attached as Exhibit T to <br />Cotter s 110d Application Amendment Application Amendment for the JD 6 Mine dated <br />September 2012 The EPP and Application Amendment also contain the measures to be <br />taken to comply with reclamation requirements and or other activities related to the <br />performance standards of Section 3 1 of the Hard Rock Metal Mining Rules which will <br />continue to be implemented during periods of temporary cessation and are incorporated by <br />reference into this letter <br />The existing financial warranty of 46 100 00 held by the Division and the United States <br />Department of Energy DOE is adequate to cover the reclamation liability of the site as it <br />exists today See letter dated March 30 2015 from Cotter to the Division total financial <br />warranty in place exceeds financial warranty required by the Division Reclamation <br />activities that would be required at this time include re contouring the mine waste material <br />and closing the two vent holes The affected area has not reached the permitted acreage yet <br />consequently the mine waste material that would need to be re contoured is less than the <br />amount used for the bond calculation Following the re contouring effort the currently <br />stockpiled topsoil would be spread over the existing affected acreage This area would then <br />need to be seeded to promote re vegetation of the site <br />The JD 6 Mine contains valuable mineral reserves that include conservatively hundreds of <br />thousands of pounds of uranium and over one million pounds of vanadium See DOE Final <br />Uranium Leasing Program Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement March 2014 <br />Leasing PEIS at Table 1 3 1 estimating 850 000 pounds of uranium oxide in JD 6 lease <br />tract Findings of Fact Conclusions of Law and Order In the Matter of Cotter Corporation <br />N S L s Notices of Temporary Cessation May 7 2013 at 57 v aluable mineral <br />reserves remain in the JD 6 Mine letter dated March 20 1990 from Cotter to the <br />Division at 3 known economic reserves remaining in the JD 6 Mine are approximately <br />59 500 tons with 36 300 tons of additional reserves expected to be encountered Cotter s <br />mine plan for mining such reserves is attached as Exhibit C to the JD 6 Application <br />Amendment and projects ore production ranging from 50 to 100 tons per day JD 6 <br />Application Amendment Exhibit C at C 1 <br />Cotter is committed to mining operations at the JD 6 Mine by the end of the second five year <br />period of temporary cessation December 15 2022 This commitment is demonstrated by <br />the substantial resources it invested in preparing the JD 6 Mine s EPP Drainage Design <br />Plan mine plan reclamation plan and other studies collecting geologic and environmental <br />data submitting the JD 6 Application Amendment to the Division and obtaining the <br />2