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Mr. Forrest Luke <br />Page 2 of 4 <br />September 2020 <br />The overburden removal/mining sequence in I and J pits utilizes the waste material from one pit to <br />backfilled into another pit. The waste material from the initial pit must be placed in an out of pit <br />spoil dump. Spoil material from subsequent pits is hauled back to the prior mined out pit. This <br />results in the prior pit being backfilled as the new pit is being developed. Therefore the <br />assumption was made that before the Worst -Case Bond Year occurs, most of the I and J pit <br />complex would be backfilled, topsoiled and revegetated to the Worst -Case Bond Year of 2022. <br />2020 <br />2021 <br />2022 <br />Total <br />Acres <br />Acres <br />Acres <br />Acres <br />Disturbed Acres <br />I pit Middle <br />31.9 <br />31.9 <br />i Pit East <br />37.7 <br />37.7 <br />1 Pit Middle <br />56.5 <br />56.5 <br />1 Pit East <br />28.4 <br />51.5 <br />79.9 <br />08 Pile <br />0.9 <br />0.9 <br />Total Disturbed <br />61.1 <br />145.6 <br />- <br />206.7 <br />Reclaimed Acres <br />I Pit Middle <br />31.9 <br />31.9 <br />1 Pit East <br />23.4 <br />23.4 <br />1 Pit Middle <br />S6.5 <br />56.5 <br />1 Pit East <br />14.2 <br />14.2 <br />Total Reclaimed <br />- <br />31.9 <br />94.1 <br />126,0 <br />Net Open Acres <br />62.1 <br />174.8 <br />80.7 <br />The table above anticipates having 80.7 acres of open lands at the end of the permit term that <br />ultimately needs to be reclaimed. It is anticipated that there will be 126 acres of reclaimed land <br />that will not be Phase Bond Released as yet. Trapper submitted the PR10 application prior to <br />the final approval of the PR9 application, in which corrections were made regarding this <br />assumption that, lands assumed to be graded topsoiled and revegetated, prior to the Worst Case <br />Bond Year would require additional work, (see CIRCES Task RNYBR). Utilizing this premise, <br />the Bond Estimate for PR10 has been revise to include these 126.0 acres in I and J pits. A <br />separate task/line item was inserted into the Direct Cost portion of the PRIO Appendix A <br />Summary Table (Table A-1), which includes the additional costs of topsoil placement and <br />revegetation for the entire 206.7 acres, 80.7 acres to be fully reclaimed and 126.0 acres of <br />RNYBR. The same unit costs and methodology used for CIRCES PR9 bond RNYBR <br />adjustment was also employed in the PR10 cost adjustment. The revise PR10 bond estimate is <br />included. <br />DRMS October 2020 <br />Trapper's response is adequate with the exception of: <br />3a. Please submit Table 1.4-1 Open Acreage Table as part of this permitting action. <br />