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Two foot thick concrete seals were installed in the main South Mine Portals in April 2000, approximately 100 feet in-by the portal openings. The portals out-by the concrete seals have not been plugged. The openings have been temporarily secured to prevent entry. The shaft at the South Fan site was plugged and has been covered by reclamation backfill, as have both portals at the 2 West Portals site (also in April 2000}. The Northwest Intake portal (from which the siphon pipe that leads to Discharge Site 002 emerges) was plugged in 1993 with dirt backfill. A settling crack a couple inches wide by, apparently, up to two feet or more deep was observed during a DMG inspection on August 15, 2001, along the upper perimeter of the backfilled portal opening. The crack had been filled in when DMG re-inspected on August 24, 2001. Operator representatives indicated the crack had been opened up and filled in with soil, and tamped in with a shovel handle for compaction, with the repairs reinforced with rock and shotcrete, and this description of the work was consistent with inspection observations. Since the described repairs were completed, there has been no evidence of slumping or re-initiation of settling, and the repaired crack has notre-opened. Permanent portal seal installations are depicted on a P.E. certified drawing, Figure 14-2, in the approved permit application. The reclamation cost estimate prepared by the Division in association with the Phase 1 bond release, reflects the extent of facilities removal and portal sealing detailed in the bond release application and confirmed during the bond release inspection. (2) Hillslope and drainage channel gradients and general design compliance--- {3) Performance of the reconstructed topography. Symptoms of failures or instabilities such as slumping or exposed highwalls will be examined--- (4) Hillslope design/function with regard to erosion-- (5) Swafes and depressions with regard to numbers of such features and effect on post-mining land use-- (8) Blending of regraded land to undisturbed areas-- (7) The functioning of reconstructed drainages with regard to knickpoints, blending at disturbance boundaries and channel erosion--- (8) Erosional features--- Items (1) through (8) were evaluated for each of the areas where backfilling and grading had been completed, and observations pertinent to these factors for the various final graded areas are addressed here below. North Decline The North Decline was backfilled and graded in 1992. Post Mining Topography Map (Exhibit 12C) in the bond release application accurately depicts the area of completed backfiiling and grading, with notation regarding the temporary drainage structures that will be removed prior !o final bond release. The map also specifies locations where "berm breaks" will be cut through the existing berm adjacent to the permanent drainage channel, in association with removal of the temporary drainage structures. Exhibit 28 in Tab 9 contains cross-sections depicting operational topography in the North Decline area, along with projected and "as built" post mining topography. Phase I Bond Release 10 August 15, 2003