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conditions, and will represent reclaimed acres in Table 19-1. Soil replacement will be completed within one <br />year following final grading, provided the area is not being used for facility or monitoring-related activities • <br />(i.e., items such as, but not limited to ramps, deadhead routes, light use roads, haul roads, ponds, <br />drainages, diversions, boneyards, office, or shop areas). If final grade is achieved during fall or winter <br />months, soil will be redistributed the following summer or fall to accommodate fall seeding. When final grade <br />is accomplished during spring or summer months, soil will be redistributed by fall to accommodate fall <br />seeding. <br />A variance to Rule 4.14.1 (1)(c) is requested for select areas of the final dragline highwafls in existing and <br />future mining area. The final highwalls in the A Pit areas were left open to accommodate auger mining, <br />Angering has been completed in these areas and backfilling efforts are close to being completed. It is <br />anticipated that the backfilling efforts will be completed by the end of 2003. SCC proposes to replace the <br />auger mining technique with a highwafl mining technique; however, the highwal miner mining plan at <br />Seneca II-W was never initiateii. <br />With the decision to forego the highwal miner operation, the schedule for backfilling and grading the <br />variance areas previously approved as part of PR-04 has been revised as shown below. <br />• A Pit (Ridgeline Pit) <br />- 1,600 feet of open pit to be backfilled by end of 2004 (approved in TR-46) <br />- 7,600 feet of open pi# to be backfilled by end of 2005 following highwafl mining (approved in . <br />PR-04) <br />- 7.600 feet -backfilling to be completed by the end of 2005 (PR-05) <br />• Wadge Pit (Northern Area) <br />- 2,800 feet -backfilling to be completed in 2006 (dragline mined in 2002, HW mined in <br />2005/2008) (approved in PR-04) <br />- 2.800 feet-backfilling to be completed by the end of 2005 (PR-05) <br />• Wadge Pit (Central Area) <br />- 2,000 feet -backfilling to be completed in 2006 (dragline mined in 2002/2003, HW mined in <br />2005) (approved in PR-04) <br />- 900 feet - backfilling to be comoleted by the end of 20051PR-05) <br />- 700 feet -backfilling to be completed by the end of 2006 (PR-051 <br />• Wolf Creek Area <br />- Aoproximately 15 acres - to be graded in 2006 (dragline mined 2004/2005) left ungraded to <br />allow dragline movement and coal truck haulage IPR-051 <br />s <br />PR-O5 6 Revised 01/06 <br />