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Species Composition (2019) <br />Total Perennial Species* <br />(>2% rel. cover) <br />Cool Season Grasses* <br />Cool Season Forbs or Shrub* <br />Relative Importance <br />(2%<x<60%) <br />Success Standard <br />3 <br />2 <br />1 <br />All Species <br />2019 post-SMCRA <br />Reclaimed Areas <br />11 <br />6 <br />5 <br />All Species <br />* Numbers reflect only those species meeting the relative importance percentage limitation and do not <br />include any prohibited species <br />Species Composition (2020) <br />Success Standard 2020 post-SMCRA <br />Reclaimed Areas <br />Total Perennial Species* 3 12 <br />(>2% rel. cover) <br />Cool Season Grasses* 2 5 <br />Cool Season Forbs or Shrub* 1 7 <br />Relative Importance <br />(2%<x<601/o) All Species All eligible species <br />* Numbers reflect only those species meeting the relative importance percentage limitation and do not <br />include any prohibited species <br />Based on the results of 2019 and 2020 quantitative vegetation cover sampling, the total <br />vegetation cover of the reclaimed areas exceeded the revegetation success criterion of 9.34 <br />percent (2019) and 11.06 percent (2020), thereby meeting the applicable revegetation <br />success criterion for Phase III bond release in 2019 and 2020. <br />Based on the results of 2019 and 2020 quantitative herbaceous production sampling, the <br />post-SMCRA reclaimed areas exceeded the final vegetation herbaceous cover success <br />criteria of 58.07 g/m2 (2019) and 59.33 g/m2 (2020), thereby meeting the applicable <br />revegetation success criterion for Phase III bond release in 2019 and 2020. <br />In both 2019 and 2020, the post-SMCRA reclaimed areas exceeded the species <br />composition revegetation success criterion of two cool season grasses and one cool <br />season forb or shrub that comprise between two and 60 percent relative cover, thereby <br />meeting the species composition requirements for Phase III bond release in years 2019 <br />and 2020. <br />Oxbow Mining LLC 2020 Phase III Bond Release Synopsis (SL-04) Page 9 <br />