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Section 522(a)(2) of SMCRA requires that reclamation must be <br />technologically and economically feasible. OSMRE (1) reviewed the <br />operations and reclamation plan portion of the permit application, <br />(2) reviewed and concurs with Colorado MLRD's finding that <br />reclamation, as required by the State program approved pursuant to <br />SMCRA, can be accomplished under the reclamation plan contained in <br />the permit application, and (3) reviewed and concurs with Colorado <br />MLRD's reclamation cost determined for bond requirement. As a <br />result of this review, OSMRE determines that the reclamation as <br />proposed in the PAP is technologically and economically feasible. <br />Section 522(a)(3) of SMCRA states that "* * ~* a surface area may be <br />designated unsuitable for certain types of surface coal mining <br />operations if such operations will: <br />(A) be incompatible with existing State or local land use plans <br />or programs; or <br />(B) affect fragile or historic lands in which such operations <br />could result in significant damage to important historic, cultural, <br />scientific, and esthetic values and natural systems; or <br />(C) affect renewable resource lands in which such operations <br />could result in a substantial loss or reduction of long-range <br />productivity of water supply or of food or fiber products, and such <br />lands to include aquifers and aquifer recharge areas; or <br />(D) affect natural hazard lands in which such operations could <br />substantially endanger life and property, such lands to include <br />areas subject to frequent flooding and areas of unstable geology." <br />