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<br />Description of the Operations and Reclamation Plan <br />With the approval of TR-09, no mining will take place at the site. The only <br />activity which is approved under this renewal bond is reclamation of the test <br />burn pit, asscciated overburden and topsoil piles, sediment control <br />structures, ~r~cnitoring wells, and roads. Approximately 53 acres ~.aill be <br />reclaimed through these activities. <br />Forty nine (49) acres of Colorado Coal Mine No. 1 were reclaimed in late <br />1989: the test burn pit and ancillary structures. Kaiser Steel Resources <br />applied for Phase I Bond Release on the property on July 27, 1990, and the <br />Division proposed an affirmative decision on the release on November 19, 1990. <br />Kaiser Steel Resources submitted Technical Revision 12 on September 27, 1991 <br />to remove the sediment ponds at the site. Hydraulic modelling successfully <br />demonstrated that vegetation cover had stabilized erosion from the site to <br />conditions better than or equal to pre-mining conditions. Kaiser reclaimed <br />the ponds and associated drainage structures covering 14 acres in February and <br />March, 1991. <br />-4- <br />