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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 Site Details Landowner Post-mining Reclamation Previous Bond Acreage Acreage Source <br /> /manager Land Use Date Releases <br /> Phase Phase <br /> I II <br /> Bear Creek B-Seam Portal&Fansite(US SL-2 application, <br /> III Steel) BLM Undeveloped 1996 SL-2 SL-2 4.9 verified from <br /> aerial imagery <br /> SL-2 application, <br /> III Hubbard Creek Fan#1 Site,including DG1 Oxbow Undeveloped 2011 SL-2 SL-2 3.2 verified from <br /> aerial imagery <br /> SL-2 application, <br /> III Lower Hubbard Creek BLM Undeveloped 1996 SL-2 SL-2 2.6 verified from <br /> aerial imagery <br /> 10.7 <br /> I,II& Sanborn Creek Mine Portals Oxbow Industrial/ 2003 N/A N/A 4.1 Exhibit 2.05-E5, <br /> III Commercial Item 6 <br /> Sanborn Creek Mine Fan Oxbow Industrial/ 2003 N/A N/A 1.6 Exhibit 2.05-E5, <br /> III Commercial 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 />