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The Marr Strip Mine produced coal from the Sudduth seam with a tnzck-and-shovel operation. Coal was extracted from two pits, the 720 Pit and Pit 1. Coal extraction from the 720 Pit ceased in 1983 and from Pit 1 in 1993. Total disturbed lands at the Marr Strip Mine were 389.7 acres according to the 2002 Annual Reclamation Report (ARR). As described in the 2002 ARR, the following table summarizes the total disturbance at the Man Mine and loadout. The lands included in this table are categorized by current use and/or state of reclamation. Mine Area Revegetated 1999 6.5 Facilities, Roads and Sediment Control 34.6 Topsoil stockpiles 3.3 Reclaimed pre-1999 (Mart Pit, Pit 1 and 720 Pit) 345.3 Total 389.7 Loadout Area Revegetated 1999 5.3 Facilities, Roads, and Sediment Control 6.4 Total 11.7 Active mining operations and related activities were suspended and final reclamation activities were initiated at the end of January 1993. Final backfilling, regrading, topsoiling, and mulch crop seeding of the major remaining disturbance areas including the Pit 1 azea and road and pond areas were completed during 1995. Final reclamation seeding of these areas, minor supplemental drainage protection work, and revegetation success evaluations were completed during 1996. Site activities during 1997 were limited to required site inspection and maintenance including routine cleaning of ditches and culverts and spraying for noxious weed control. During the active operations coal was trucked to the Kerr tipple, south of Walden, where it was stockpiled, crushed, screened, and loaded out. The facility was constructed on fill in the wetlands of the Illinois River and encompasses approximately 12 acres. The adjacent rail lines were pulled out by the railroad company in June 1996. Most of the coal stockpiled at the loadout was removed in September 1996. In 1998, Ken Coal Company dismantled some of the buildings at the loadout. Approximately 3,000 cubic yards of remaining coal and coal fines remain were hauled to the mine site and buried. The reclamation for the loadout area (backfilling and grading) was completed in 1999. During 2002, Energy Fuels Coal, Inc. coordinated with the Division, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the Office of Surface Mining to identify, plug, seal, and reclaim a number of old exploration boreholes and alluvial monitoring wells, located primarily in the Ken North Area north of County Road 12E. This work was completed in October 2002, 25 bedrock wells and 20 alluvial wells were successfirlly sealed and reclaimed on lands drilled by the Ken Coal Company.