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gulch sides, and the bottom of the gulch. Please provide the additional information. Please ensure that you include the topsoil and subsoil depths and their erodibilities. Exhibit L - Reclamatian Costs (Rule 6.4.12) Your figures reflect the costs of reclaiming the total 100 acres and aper-acre cost. I will use these in my own cost estimate, but may also include other costs, depending on your responses to these items. Please be reminded that though you will be able to perform all the reclamation less expensively that my costs will show, I must use unit costs that reflect what is charged to the state by outside reclamation contractors. Your 100-acre figure for reclaiming the entire permitted area raises a question concerning the presumed 50-foot buffer around the perimeter of the site, which may not require any reclamation. A buffer such as this accounts for about ten acres. Please clarify the width of the buffer strip, and whether there will be any need for any reclamation activities there. I must include the costs of mobilizing and demobilizing equipment for performing the reclamation. 'T'here is a large potential contractor pool in Durango, which is not terribly distant and probably has all required equipment. Please clarify why there is no cost for the placement and grading of reject material as part of the reclamation. As requested above, I will need the minimum depths (or range of depths) of replaced subsoil (overburden) and topsoil. Equipment I expect to include in the estimate consists of a D8 dozer with ripper attachment, elevating scraper, and possibly a wheeled loader. The ripper will be for eliminating compaction on former roadways and processing areas, so that they may be seeded. I will probably include an. agricultural tractor with various revegetation implements for the seeding, etc. If you have specific equipment in mind for any of the reclamation tasks in the plan, please let me know. Please be specific in your responses to the slope grading questions (see Exhibit D above) and the species to be used in the seed mix (see Exhibit E above), since they will affect the bond estimate. I will wait until I have received you responses before I begin to calculate a bond amount. Additional Items We have received the damage agreement between you and Atmos Energy, which described several operating limitations or setbacks to be maintained. Since you are committing to those details, they will become part of your permit and will be monitored. This office must receive proof of notification of all adjoining landowners prior to the decision date. If there are, in fact, additional landowners who still have not been sent notices (see Exhibit C above), please ensure that the notices are sent promptly, and that I receive all proofs of notification (signed green certified mail cards) prior to the decision date. Your written responses and revised maps which you will be submitting to me will constitute additional materials and must be additionally filed with the county clerk and recorder. Please ensure that you file a complete set of these materials, obtain a receipt, and send me the receipt for the filing prior to the decision date. The decision date is still set for April 28, 2003. I am required to state that if, by the close of business on the decision date, your responses have not been received here and your application is therefore not adequate for approval, the application may be denied. If you need additional time to prepare and submit your responses, an extension to the decision date may be requested in writing. Please try to ensure that your responses are received here several days before the decision date to allow time for review.