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Rule 2.05.3(6) <br /> 14. On page 3-12, there is a discussion on the clearing of brush before mining. If brush has ever <br /> been burned on site for the purpose of clearing, please add this to the discussion. <br /> 15. Please update Table 3.1-2, "Major Equipment List," found on page 3-11, to include the new <br /> haul trucks, as well as any other new equipment. <br /> Rule 2.05.4(2)(e) <br /> 16. Permit Section 4.4.1.4 discusses Trapper Mining Inc.'s revegetation success standards for <br /> measuring diversity. These pages, 4-126g through 4-128a, indicate that a diversity standard <br /> will be based on the species composition of the permanent reference areas. These pages are <br /> dated July 23, 1987. A letter dated October 3, 1988 from Trapper Mining Inc. to the Division <br /> proposes utilizing pre-mine sampling data to set a technical standard for reclamation diversity <br /> success. This proposal was not submitted as a revision, and therefore was never incorporated <br /> into the permit as an approved standard. <br /> Rule 4.15.7(2)(d)(v) requires that technical standards used to determine revegetation success <br /> "must be derived from statistically adequate samples collected over a period of several years." <br /> The pre-mine data presented in the October 3, 1988 letter presents only one year, 1980, data. <br /> Does Trapper Mining Inc. wish to revise the revegetation diversity standard to data derived <br /> from pre-disturbance sampling? if Trapper Mining Inc. chooses to revise the standard, please <br /> submit this proposal as a technical revision to the permit. Does Trapper intend to retain the <br /> permanent reference areas for diversity comparison? Please clarify Trapper's position on the <br /> diversity standard. <br /> 17. On June 15, 1995, a representative from Trapper Mining Inc. met with the Division and <br /> discussed planned vegetation sampling at the Trapper Mine for the 1995 sampling season. <br /> Although the methodologies Trapper described varied from the sampling methodologies <br /> described in the permit, the Division was in agreement with the sampling plan proposed at the <br /> meeting. <br /> Does Trapper intend to employ the sampling methodologies described in the permit in the <br /> future, or will the methodologies discussed for the 1995 season be used for future sampling? If <br /> a change in sampling methodologies, from those described in the permit, will be employed <br /> during future revegetation success sampling, please submit a technical revision outlining <br /> proposed sampling procedures as required by Rule 4.15.7(2)(b). <br /> Rule 2.05.6(5) <br /> 18. Please update Section 3.1.8, "Surface Mining Near Underground Mining," on pages 3-18 and <br /> 3-18a, as it concerns the Eagle No. 5 Mine. <br /> 6 <br />