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Rule 2.05.3(61 <br />14. On page 3-12, there is a discussion on the cleazing of brush before mining. If brush has ever <br />been burned on site for the purpose of cleazing, please add this to the discussion. <br />15. Please update Table 3.1-2, "Major Equipment List," found on page 3-I 1, to include the new <br />haul trucks, as well as any other new equipment. <br />Rule 2.05.4(21(el <br />16. Permit Section 4.4.1.4 discusses Trapper Mining Inc.'s revegetation success standards for <br />measuring diversity. These pages, 4-126g through 4-128a, indicate that a diversity standard <br />will be based on the species composition of the permanent reference areas. These pages are <br />dated July 23, 1987. A letter dated October 3, 1988 from Trapper Mining Inc. to the Division <br />proposes utilizing pre-mine sampling data to set a technical standard for reclamation diversity <br />success. This proposal was not submitted as a revision, and therefore was never incorporated <br />into the permit as an approved standard. <br />Rule 4.15.7(2)(d)(v) requires that technical standards used to determine revegetation success <br />"must be derived from statistically adequate samples collected over a period of several years." <br />The pre-mine data presented in the October 3, 1988 letter presents only one year, 1980, data. <br />Does Trapper Mining Inc. wish to revise the revegetation diversity standard to data derived <br />from pre-disturbance sampling? If Trapper Mining Inc. chooses to revise the standard, please <br />submit this proposal as a technical revision to the permit. Does Trapper intend to retain the <br />permanent reference areas for diversity comparison? Please clarify Trapper's position on the <br />diversity standard. <br />17. On June 15, 1995, a representative from Trapper Mining Inc. met with the Division and <br />discussed planned vegetation sampling at the Trapper Mine for the 1995 sampling season. <br />Although the methodologies Trapper described vaned from the sampling methodologies <br />described in the permit, the Division was in agreement with the sampling plan proposed at the <br />meeting. <br />Does Trapper intend to employ the sampling methodologies described in the permit in the <br />future, or will the methodologies discussed for the 1995 season be used for future. sampling? if <br />a change in sampling methodologies, from those described in the permit, will be employed <br />during future revegetation success sampling, please submit a technical revision outlining <br />proposed sampling procedures as required by Rule 4.15.7(2)(6). <br />Rule 2.05.6(51 <br />18. Please update Section 3.1.8, "Surface Mining Neaz Underground Mining," on pages 3-18 and <br />3-18a, as it concerns the Eagle No. 5 Mine. <br />6 <br />