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There is a 20-foot access road, blocked by an earthen berm, at the entrance to the upper bench area. There is an <br />un-reclaimed, but overgrown, access road, approximately a hundred yards long, down from GCR 117 to the <br />lower bench area. Both roads are unimproved dirt roads. <br />Describe any backfilling/grading completed by the operator or the Division and year completed; <br />The Division commenced reclamation of the site in the summer of 1990. Work involved sealing and backfilling <br />the access portal, demolishing and removing certain mine structures and electrical utilities to the north of GCR <br />117, and sealing the fan portal south of the road. The air intake adit collapsed behind the portal seal in 1994, <br />creating a depression at the surface roughly 15 feet in diameter and more than 50 feet deep. The collapse was <br />reclaimed in the summer of 1994 by AML. Removal of a failing crib wall adjacent to and on the north side of <br />the road, backfill of the settlement or collapse over the lower fan portal (below the road), cleanup of <br />miscellaneous equipment and mining debris, and reseeding of re-disturbed azeas was accomplished in October <br />of 1999 by AML. All funds from the forfeited Sunlight bond have been expended by the State on reclamation <br />work at the mine. <br />Is there any remaining backfilling and grading work to be accomplished on site? List area and estimated <br />volume; <br />There is no remaining backfilling and grading work to be accomplished on the site. <br />Are there any signs of settling on any of the reclaimed areas? Have there been settling/stability concerns in the <br />past? i. e. surface cracks, springs displacement? <br />A deteriorating crib wall was removed, and collapse behind the lower air portal has been remediated. There is <br />no current sign of settling on reclaimed areas, and there aze no remaining stability concems. <br />Was topsoil replaced? If yes what thickness over how many acres? Is there any topsoil remaining in stockpiles? <br />No topsoil was replaced, and there is not any topsoil remaining in stockpiles. <br />**Was the site seeded? <br />Yes, the reclaimed azeas were seeded. <br />** How many acres seeded? <br />An estimated 5.24 acres were seeded. <br />* * When was it seeded? <br />Initial seeding was accomplished in 1990, and the cribwall site and remedial collapse work seeded in 1994. <br />**Is the seed mix known? <br />Yes. The seed mix included Louisiana sage, Palmer Penstemon, Globemallow, Western wheatgrass, Bluebunch <br />wheatgrass, Sideoats grama, Blue grama, Basin wildrye, Indian ricegrass, Green needlegrass, and Sand <br />dropseed. <br />