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<br />REVIEW QUESTION <br />4.18 <br />(4)(c) It seems apparent from Exhibit 1 of the vegetation reference area <br />study and Exhibit Y - Mine Layout - that natural riparian habitat will be <br />disturbed in the permit area. Since this area has already been disturbed <br />the appropriate response to this section must address restorting and en- <br />hancing this community and minimizing further disturbance. <br />RESPONSE <br />No streams or permanent impoundments are found in the permit <br />area. (See volume IV, Appendix M, Page 39.) Therefore, no <br />natural riparian habitat will be disturbed in the permit area. <br />F1 <br />/U <br />Less than three acres of the wet meadow plant community has been <br />disturbed within the permit area. No additional disturbance of <br />this community is planned. All of the disturbance has been to <br />the surface only. The spring that originally supplied the wet <br />meadow areas has not been affected. <br />No special reclamation techniques are anticipated to be needed <br />to re-establish the wet meadow plant community. Topsoil will be <br />applied to the disturbed area and the same seed mix will control <br />erosion and that wet meadow community will re-establish itself. <br />The water quality of the springs that supply the disturbed wet <br />meadow communities are being monitored as part of the ground- <br />water monitoring program. <br /> <br />