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C. An environmental monitoring system was installed, maintained, and operated by the <br />permittee on the alluvial valley floors during surface coal mining and reclamation <br />operations. The Division approved suspension of the ground water monitoring until <br />two years prior to the submittal of a Phase III bond release application. The <br />monitoring system will continue to be in effect until all bonds are released in <br />accordance with Rule. 3 (4.24.4). <br />XI. Operations on Prime Farmland <br />A. The Division has made a negative determination for the presence of prime farmlands <br />within the approved permit areas. The decision was based on the facts that there are <br />no prime farmland mapping units (see Exhibit 19, Volume IV, of the approved permit <br />application), and the land has not been historically used as cropland. <br />Contact with Mr. Hancynn of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service in Pagosa Springs by <br />Mariah Associates, Inc. also verified [hat no prime farmland exists on the Revision No. <br />1 area (page 5, Soils Baseline Report by Mariah Associates, August 1983). The <br />existing operations are in compliance with (4.25.2). <br />19 <br />