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mobilization of equipment, coal spoil removal and placement followed by overburden removal and placement to eliminate highwalls. Topsoil replacement preceded seeding of the site. Improvements were also proposed to the permanent sediment ponds. This Cooperative Agreement was closed out as documented in Division correspondence dated 7/9/1992. Inspection History The New Pryor site was inspected on a monthly basis from the completion of reclamation work done under the cooperative agreement in 1992 until the Spring of 1998. At that time, the Division reduced the inspection frequency to two inspections a year, one being a complete inspection as allowed by Rule 5.02.2(8). All written inspections are part of the document record at the site. Other than a small settlement area that developed in the west-central portion of the reclaimed area, nothing of significance was noted or observed during the revegetation liability period. The Inactive Mines Program repaired the subsidence feature in the same season as it occurred. III. CRITERIA AND SCHEDULE FOR BOND RELEASE PHASE I Rule 3.03.1(2)(a) states, "Up to sixty percent of the applicable bond amount shall be released when the permittee successfully completes backfilling, regrading, and drainage control in accordance with the approved reclamation plan." The reclamation plan for this mine site was designed and implemented under a cooperative agreement (GR090081) with the Office of Surface Mining and Enforcement. As stated in Article III, Section 2, Purpose, reclamation activities were intended to eliminate the dangerous highwall and correct the severe erosion and failing vegetation at the site. The agreement also states "the recipient is not responsible for further reclamation beyond the maintenance performed during the first yeaz following completion ofthe Project." PHASE li Rule 3.03.1(2)(b) states, "Up to eighty-five percent of the applicable bond amount shall be released upon the establishment of vegetation which supports the approved post- mining land use and which meets the approved success standazd for cover... based on statistically valid data collected during a single yeaz of the liability period". In regazd to Phase II bond release, Rule 3.03.2(3)(b) also states, " No more than sixty (60) percent of the bond shall be released so long as the lands to which the release would be applicable are contributing suspended solids to stream flow or runoffoutside the pemut area in excess of premising levels as determined by baseline data or in excess of levels determined on adjacent non-mined azeas". With regard to Phase II bond release, the reclamation plan conducted under the cooperative agreement included topsoil removal 5