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<br />area increases the number of soil samples will also increase. <br />Samples will be taken from reclaimed areas that have been topsoiled <br />and final graded. Representative samples will be taken across the <br />reclaimed surface and composited for a single analysis. Samples <br />will be taken using a hand auger. Equal volumes of samples will <br />be mixed, bagged and taken to the laboratory for analysis. The <br />results of this sampling will determine the fertility status of the <br />soil and thus the need for fertilization. <br />PROTECTION OF THE HYDROLOGIC BALANCE <br />4.05.6(3)(b) <br />Wyoming Fuel Company will clean out sediments in the sedi- <br />mentation ponds when the levels exceed 600 of the maximum sediment <br />storage volume. <br />2.05.6(3) <br />The opening statement made by the regulatory authority is <br />incorrect. Kerr Coal does not have a well in the Upper Sandy <br />Member of the Pierre Formation. Page 82 Section 2.05.6(3)(b)(iv) <br />specifically states "Only one registered well lies in the Bolton <br />Draw drainage. This well, belonging to Kerr Coal Co...produces <br />from the lower Coalmont Formation." The authority is also specici- <br />cally referred to Plate 4 of the Willard Owens Report (Hydrologic <br />Features Map) which shows the location of the Kerr well clearly on <br />the east side of their pit and obviously not in the Pierre Formation. <br />Wyoming Fuel Company (not Western Fuels) as of this writing <br />has not installed the well referenced on Page 82. This well when <br />installed, however, will be completed in the Upper Sandy Member of <br />the Pierre Shale. <br />1) If the regulatory authority is concerned that Wyoming <br />Fuel Company's Canadian Strip Mine extension will possibly affect <br />the Kerr well, it is our contention that if the Kerr pit (which is <br />probably an order of magnitude larger than our pit by comparison, <br />and is located immediately adjacent to and on the up-dip side of the <br />well) does not have any affect on the well, then the Wyoming Fuel <br />Company pit cannot possibly have any affect.on it. <br />Wyoming Fuel Company has attempted to demonstrate that <br />there is essentially no hydrologic communication between the Upper <br />Sandy I•fember of the Pierre Shale and the Lower Coalmont Formation, <br />except possibly through highly localized fault or fracture systems. <br />Page 75 of Section 2.05.6(3)(b)(iv) states "Immediately <br />underlying the Sudduth Coal is the Upper Sandy Member of the Pierre <br />Shale which is of Late Cretaceous Age. Exploration in the vicinity <br />has indicated that this formation is predominately an interbedded <br />_ r~ _ <br />