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When determining the amount of bond to be released, the Board or Division shall retain that amount <br />• of bond for the revegetated area which would be sufficient for a third party to cover the cost of <br />reestablishing revegetation at any time during the period specified for permittee responsibility for <br />revegetation described in 3.02.3. <br />This Rule pertains to an element of the Application. Sufficient amount of bond is retained by the <br />Division for a third party to cover the cost of reestablishing vegetation in areas previously disturbed, <br />as well as for areas approved to be, but as yet not, disturbed. <br />F. Rule 3.03.1(3)(b) Suspended Solids, Soil Productivity, Hydrologic Functions and <br />Agricultural Productivity <br />No more than sixty (60) percent of the bond shall be released so long as the lands to which the release <br />would be applicable are contributing suspended solids to streamflow or runoff outside the permit area <br />in excess of premining levels as determined by baseline data or in excess of levels determined on <br />adjacent nonmined areas; until soil productivity for prime farmlands has returned to equivalent levels <br />of yield as nonmined land of the same soil type on the surrounding area under equivalent management <br />practices as determined from the soil survey performed under 2.04.12 and 2.06.6 and the success <br />determination methodology of 4.25.5(3)(a); or, on alluvial valley floors, until the essential hydrologic <br />functions and agricultural productivity have been reestablished. <br />No element of the Application pertains to this Rule. <br />G. Rule 3.03.1(3)(c) Silt Dams Retained as Permanent Impoundments <br />Where a silt dam is to be retained as a permanent impoundment as described in 4.05.6 or 4.05.9, more <br />than sixty (60) percent of the bond may be released only so long as provisions for sound future <br />maintenance by the permittee or the landowner have been made with the Division. <br />No element of the Application pertains to this Rule. <br />H. Rule 3.03.1(3)(d) Minimum Performance Bond <br />The Division shall not release any amount under performatce bonds applicable to a permit if such <br />release would reduce the total remaining amount under performance bonds to an amount less than that <br />necessary for the Division to complete the approved reclamation plan. <br />The Division will hold bond monies in sufficient amounts to complete the remaining reclamation <br />liability. <br />I. Rule 3.03.1(3)(e) Alternate Postmining Land Use Plan <br />9 April 27, 1998 <br />