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The area has been managed as a "small area exemption", with straw wattles and silt fence <br />on the slopes and straw bales in the road ditch at the base of the slope. As vegetation <br />matured and filled m, the alternative sediment control has been mostly removed from the <br />slopes in the last 6 months An updated demonstration must be placed into the permit, <br />utilizing the present vegetative cover and slope data to justify managing the area as an SAE <br />without the alternative sediment control. <br />The former topsoil pile was regarded into the pre-existing topography according to the <br />reclamation plan and it blends into the topography well. The regrading was excellent. There <br />was very good revegation on the footprint of the pile (visually estimated at 50°1o cover). The <br />pile had been permitted as an SAE and MCC maintained straw bales around the downhill <br />perimeter of the site until )ust recently. The bales had been apparently disrupted by livestock <br />and/or wildlife and were no longer in place There has not been evidence of erosion or off- <br />site transport of sediment and there was no evidence of impact at the time of the inspection. <br />MCC needs to provide a justification in the permit for the absence of alternative sediment <br />control on the former topsoil pile footprint, utilizing the USLE such as was provided in the <br />bond release application. <br />The former portal area required the major regarding and reclamation within the Lone Pine <br />facility. All the structures have been completely removed. The portal was sealed in 2001 <br />(see Technical Revision 93), backfilled and the slope regarded that same year, followed <br />immediately by replacement of topsoil and seeding. The area regraded topography <br />conforms to the reclamation plan for the area, fitting into the original topography of the site. <br />