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<br />Sample 2. East side of refuse disposal area, 0 to 12 inces. Fifteen <br />to twenty degree slope. Colluvial soil with sandstone rocks and <br />boulders on the surface. Mainly a conifer stand with gambel oak <br />understory in patches, juniper and other shrubs sparsely present, no <br />grass understory. Location is higher than Sample 1, with more organic <br />matter at the surface. <br />Sample 3. Behind fuel storage area on old cut slope, 0 to 8 inches. <br />Seeded with crested wheatgrass in the fall of 1976, good weed stand. <br />Slope is about 45 degrees. Some apparent coal contamination. <br />Sample 4. Near fireplug in parking lot, 0 to 6 inches. No plant <br />cover, extremely severe disturbance, is gravelly, highly compacted, <br />and somewhat contaminated with oil and coal fines. <br />• Sample 5. Disturbed area at the side of the driveway near the front <br />door of Mine Number 3, 0 to 6 inches. No plant cover at the immediate <br />sampling location but adjacent areas have crested wheatgrass, Indian <br />ricegrass and gambel oak. <br />Sample 6. Reclaimed area on road cut across from the Mine Number 3 <br />conveyor, 0 to 10 inches. Vegetation establishment is very good on <br />this 45 degree southfacing slope. Species noted are crested <br />wheatgrass, alfalfa, Rocky Mountain juniper, blue spruce, Russian <br />olive, skunkbush sumac and mountain mahogany. <br />Sample 7. Very steep cutbank under the Mine Number 3 conveyor, above <br />the road between the conveyor and the creek, 0 to 6 inches. Shady <br />site with willow and gambel oak. Some apparent coal contamination <br />although it does not look recent. Lots of plant litter at the <br />surface. <br /> <br />3-103 <br />