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-2- 6. The applicant should submit a statement in the application that any species substitutions will be approved by MLRD in writing prior to their use in the seed mixes. 7. The applicant should submit a specific dated timetable for seeding for all revegetation efforts. 8. The applicant should submit a table delineating the total number of acres to be replaced to containerized stock transplants. Additionally, the Division would like to know whether the applicant proposes to fence these areas or take other measures to prevent predation on the plant species by wildlife. 9. The applicant should incorporate more species of shrubs into seed mixes 1 and 2. 10. On page 13-44 the applicant proposes to use carrying capacity as a success standard for production. On the following pages the applicant proposes to use reference areas. Please clarify the approach which is proposed to be used. 11. The Division requests that the applicant expand on the plan for revegetation monitoring, proposing a timetable, methodologies, and numbers of samples to be taken. 12. The applicant has proposed methodologies for sampling vegetation cover to determine revegetation success. The Division requests that all future cover sampling be conducted with point-intercept or line-intercept methodologies. Further, the applicant should specifically address which methods will be used to collect revegetation success criteria data for the parameters of production and woody plant density. 13. In the formula for calculation of weighted revegetation averages the parameter At appears to the Division as if it should be total predisturbance acreage of all plant communities. Is this what the applicant intends? 14. The Table 10-6, which the applicant refers to in the revegetation success section, has not been included in the text. This should be supplied for all copies of the application. 15. The Division has independently determined that the following life forms comprise more than three percent relative cover in the mine area; two tree species, four shrub species, three grass species, and two forb species. The Division proposes the species diversity standard be; three grass species, three forb species, four shrub species, and one tree species to be established in the same relative cover amounts as proposed by the applicant.