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Regardless of the problem with verifying the initial unreclaimed area, the unreclaimed area at the end of any other year should equal the unreclaimed area at the end of the previous year plus the area disturbed during the given year (Mining phase started plus mining phase completed - see Table 1) minus the area re- claimed during the given year. This procedure only worked for verifying the unreclaimed areas for 1982 through 1985. Since the preceding years could not be verified, the unreclaimed areas for 1981 through 1985 could not be assumed to be correct. Presum- ably, the reason as to why the unreclaimed areas for years 1919, 1980, 1981 and 1986 could not be verified was that the applicant included additional disturbed or reclaimed areas (stockpiles, ditches, roads) in calculatiny the "unreclaimed Areas" which were not a part of any of the phases noted on Figure 2 and were there- fore not shown on Table 2. During the analysis of the mining and reclamation plan some other minor unexplainable discrepancies were also encountered. In Table 1 of Addendum II, the total pond disturbed area is noted as 5.2 acres (year 1986) when the total disturbed pond area cal- culated from pages 15 and 16 of Addendum II is 5.6 acres. On page 14 of Addendum II, the disturbed acres less the pond dis- turbed acres are presented for years 1981 through 1986. Sub- tracting these areas from the yearly areas shown on Table 2 gives a pond disturbance acreage of 3.2 acres, which does not agree with the 5.2 acres shown on Table 2 or the 5.6 acres calculated using areas from pages 14 and 15. Page 17 of Addendum II shows the bond amounts for the various reclamation tasks required for each year. In year 1986, the bonding requirement for ponds, roads, ditches, and fencing is sharply reduced, from $22,501 to $12,490. Some reduction is expected as some of the roads used for mining operations, that will not be needed for monitoring purposes during the 10 year postmining liability phase [Section 3.02.3(2)(b) of the Colorado permanent regulatory program], will be reclaimed. Based on the bond amounts given on pages 15 and 16 of Addendum fI, the bond amount of $12,490 indicates that most of -59-