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• year permit term, Colowyo committed to the following requirement as <br />excerpted from the Colowvo Findings and Proposed Decision to <br />Approve Permit File No C-019-81 September 18 1982. <br />"Colowyo has committed, within the application, to include <br />information in an annual report verifying that enough topsoil is <br />being salvaged each year to replace a sufficient amount of soil on <br />regraded areas. The monitoring program will serve to refine or <br />verify the accuracy of topsoil volume estimates by providing <br />accurate yearly topsoil balance assessments. If, in the future, <br />the Division determines that the monitoring has established, that <br />sufficient topsoil is available throughout the life-of-the-mine to <br />allow successful reclamation given the present topsoil salvage <br />plan, the monitoring requirement may be suspended." <br />Colowyo had satisfied the requirements of this commitment and the <br />information was reported in the 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986 Colowyo <br />Annual Reports. The data indicated that sufficient topsoil was <br />available throughout the life of the mine to allow successful <br />reclamation given the present topsoil salvage plan. <br />• Subsequently a request was made to the Division at permit renewal <br />that, based on the data supplied, this monitoring requirement be <br />suspended. This request was subsequently granted. <br />The time period during the year when topsoil removal, distribution <br />and revegetation operations take place depends solely on the <br />weather. Generally, topsoil removal and distribution operations <br />will begin in the spring when soil conditions allow the movement of <br />topsoil, and may continue until late fall until weather conditions <br />prohibit any further topsoil handling. Revegetation, typically, <br />will take place during the early spring or fall. <br />The topsoil removal plan indicates that topsoil removed since the <br />initiation of operations has been placed in designated stockpiles <br />as shown on the Topsoil Handling Map (Map 28). Most of the topsoil <br />from the initial boxcut area as shown on the Mine Plan Map (Map 23) <br />has been stockpiled, since only very limited regraded areas were <br />available for immediate reapplication. <br /> <br />2.05-25 <br />