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The Division scheduled and conducted a bond release inspection on February 25, 2021. The site <br />inspection was conducted in accordance with Rule 3.03.2(2). The inspection was attended by <br />Jason Musick (Division) and Doug Smith (Oxbow). No representatives of the Bureau of Land <br />Management or the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement were present. <br />Table 1 <br />Phase <br />Site Details <br />Landowner <br />Post -mining <br />Reclamation <br />Previous Bond <br />Acreage <br />Acreage Source <br />/ manager <br />Land Use <br />Date <br />Releases <br />Phase <br />I <br />Phase <br />II <br />SL-2 application, <br />Bear Creek B-Seam Portal & Fansite (US <br />III <br />BLM <br />Undeveloped <br />1996 <br />SL-2 <br />SL-2 <br />4.9 <br />verified from <br />Steel) <br />aerial imagery <br />SL-2 application, <br />III <br />Hubbard Creek Fan #1 Site, including DG1 <br />Oxbow <br />Undeveloped <br />2011 <br />SL-2 <br />SL-2 <br />3.2 <br />verified from <br />aerial imagery <br />SL-2 application, <br />III <br />Lower Hubbard Creek <br />BLM <br />Undeveloped <br />1996 <br />SL-2 <br />SL-2 <br />2.6 <br />verified from <br />aerial imagery <br />10.7 <br />I, II & <br />Industrial / <br />Exhibit 2.05-E5, <br />Sanborn Creek Mine Portals <br />BLM <br />2003 <br />N/A <br />N/A <br />4.1 <br />III <br />Commercial <br />Item 6 <br />Industrial / <br />Exhibit 2.05-E5, <br />Sanborn Creek Mine Fan <br />BLM <br />2003 <br />N/A <br />N/A <br />1.6 <br />III <br />Commercial <br />Item 6 <br />5.7 <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, structures were demolished, and mine <br />openings were sealed and backflled at the Sanborn Creek Mine Portals area and the Sanborn Creek <br />Mine Fan site in 2003. These areas have an Industrial / Commercial post -mining land use, as such, the <br />backfill and grading and drainage re-establishment requirements are capable of supporting the post - <br />mining land use. <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 />C-1981-022, SL-4 Page 5 of 10 <br />