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The Division has initiated a review of the backfill and grading procedures utilized at the Trapper Mine and the resultant post-mining topography and how they relate to compliance with the approximate original contour requirements of Rules 4.14.1 and 4.14.2. SECTION V. -PERMIT VARIANCES AND SPECIFIC APPROVALS The following aze specific variances and approvals granted by the Division. They are further out- lined in the Permit Renewal No. 2, Permit Revision No. 3 Findings Document, dated February 5, 1993. The Division has granted a variance from Rule 4.14.1 for contemporaneous reclamation. Due to the nature of coal extraction at Trapper, rough backfilling and grading may take more than 180 days, although the operator has committed to never having more than four ungraded spoil ridges at any one time. The Division has granted specific approval, under Rule 4.03.1(2)(c), for temporary fords of ephemeral or intermittent streams with a watershed of more than one mile for haul roads in Coyote, Johnson, No Name and East Pyeatt drainages. The Division has granted specific approval, under Rule 4.03.2(2)(c), for temporary fords of ephemeral streams with a watershed of more than one mile for access roads in the Coyote, Johnson, No Name and East Pyeatt drainages. The Division will give a specific variance, through the minor revision process, for specific azeas that are to be excluded from topsoil removal, pursuant to Rule 4.06.2(2)(a). There is no general vaziance from Rule 4.06.2(2)(a) for the entire mine site. The Division, under Rule 4.08.4(2), will grant approval for deviations from the announced blasting schedule for unavoidable hazardous situations. These situations aze elimination of misfires, adverse weather conditions, equipment failure and safety related reasons. Under Rule 4.15.2(3), the operator has shown that introduced species can be used in the reclamation seed mix. The Division concurred. The Division has granted specific approval, pursuant to Rule 4.15.7(1), for the use of shrub clumps to partially meet the shrub density requirement. For range sites A and B, each shrub clump will be at least l.6 acres in size and have a live stem density of at least 3,764 per clump. In addition, a live stem density of at least 400 stems per acre will be achieved, including the shrub clumps. Range site C will have no shrub density standazd. Under Rules 4.19(1) and 4.22.4(1), the Division had granted a variance to allow the operator to mine closer than 500 feet from an underground mine. This vaziance involved Trapper's Colt Pit and Empire's underground mine. As of this date, mining has ceased in the Colt Pit and the pit has been backfilled, graded, topsoiled and revegetated. 7