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Rule 2: Permits <br />• Land Use of Revegetation Communities <br />Primarily, three pre-mining vegetation communities will be disturbed by the surface mine, Loadout, <br />and haul roads during the life of the mine: hay meadow, grassland and oak pinyon pine. The <br />communities are described in detail in Section 2.04-10. <br />U <br />n <br />U <br />LCC proposes to establish post-mine vegetation communities based on the pre-mine communities, <br />post mine site factors (i.e. topography, soils, aspect), and post-mine land uses. Acreages of post- <br />mine vegetation communities aze presented in Table 2.05.4-1g. Disturbances will be graded and <br />revegetated to similar pre-mine conditions with the following exceptions: <br />TABLE 2.05.4-1 POST MINING VEGETATION COMMUNITY TYPE <br />Disturbance T e Ve elation Communit Acres <br />Jeff Canyon Surface Mine Grassland 660 <br /> Subtotal 660 <br />Jeff Canyon Roads Oak/Pinyon Pine 9 <br /> Coniferous Forest 1 <br /> Riparian 1 <br /> Grassland 2 <br /> Subtotal 13 <br />Loadout Facility Hay Meadow 7 <br /> Subtotal 7 <br />Haul and Access Road, and Grassland 5 <br />Loadout Topsoil Stockpiles Oak/Pinyon Pine 5 <br /> Hay Meadow 1 <br /> Subtotal 11 <br />Haul and Access Roads Oak/Pinyon Pine 9 <br /> Subtotal 9 <br /> TOTAL, ALL 700 <br />• Disturbed portions of the surface mine area will be revegetated to a grassland community <br />with interspersed shrub plantings. <br />• The Office Area will be utilized by the surface land owner for a staging and storage area to <br />support apost-mine rangeland land use classification. This planned used is not consistent <br />with topsoiling and revegetation of these areas. <br />• Natural reinvasion will be used to reestablish the shrub and tree component in premine <br />communities disturbed by linear features such as reclaimed haul roads, access roads, and <br />diversion ditches. Planting of shrubs and trees in most linear features would not be <br />effective in significantly enhancing rangeland or wildlife habitat. <br />TR-13 <br />2.05-61 (Revised 12/8/04) <br />