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• s~.'r c~z-~*r rimvuv~ co. P_O. Drawer L ~'ruita, Colorado 8L52L <303) 858-].396 August 30, 1985 Mr. Tom Gillis Colorado Mined Land Reclamation 1313 Sherman St. Room 423 Denver, Colorado 80203 RE: McClane Canyon Mine Response to Stipulations Dear Mr. Gillis: ~ iii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ~~~~~~~~ SEA 3 '~~=; MINEU LAND RECLAMA710N DIVISION On July 5, 1985 Salt Creek Mining Company was granted a renewal of its coal mining permit. Attached to the permit were several stipulations requiring responses by Salt Creek. The enclosed responses should satisfy the stipulations which were to be answered within 60 days of permit approval. The stipulations and responses are outlined below. -~ Stipulation 5 - Required that Salt Creek provide soil analysis on the mine bench area to determine if special handling of the surface layer would be necessary. The soil samples taken by Salt Creek are shown on page 9-64a and indicate that no special handling of the surface layer is necessary. ;; Stipulation 7 - Required Salt Creek to use the combined premising productivity data from both mines for the Greasewood Shrubland, Shedscale Shrubland and the Juniper Woodland for the determination of revegetation success standard. A statement to that effect has been provided in Section 3.4.9 Stipulation 8 = Salt Creek was required to use the woody plant density revegetation standard proposed by CMLR. The sugested.standard has been adopted as shown on pages 3-13 and 3-19. Stipulation-9 - Salt Creek was required to and has incorporated, on page 3-16, the suggested species diversity standard. Stipulation 10 - The annual revegetation monitoring program proposed For the Munger Canyon Mine has been adopted for the McClane Canyon Mine and is contained on pages 3-15 and 3-16.