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3-3 <br />• o Hydrologic Restoration <br />o Reclamation Schedule and Costs <br />Proposed reclaimed plant communities have been selected to be <br />compatible with the surrounding environs and pre-mining plant <br />communities and include: <br />o Rangeland <br />o Wildlife Habitat <br />Reclamation techniques presented in the following sections have <br />been developed from the state-of-the-art technology presently <br />available and applicable to existing site conditions. As the <br />reclamation program progresses, modifications will be made as <br />needed in the reclamation plan to keep methodologies consistent <br />• with the state-of-the-art technology. <br />The affected area will be returned to approximate original con- <br />tours with special consideration of reestablishing the ephemeral <br />drainageway. Existing or pre-mining land use is the principle <br />criterion for establishing reclamation objectives. Overall <br />average parity between pre-mining and post-mining land use will <br />be achieved as a result of our reclamation, reestablishing the <br />land use capability of the affected lands. <br />No particular or unique reclamation problems exist that have not <br />been successfully dealt with in other semi-arid western coal <br />mining operations that can be related to this exploration operation <br />by similarity. <br />l~_J <br />