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requirements of RMBT's approved reclamation plan and to the regulatory requirements for bond release. Chronoloav of Division's Review of the Bond Release Analication The Division's review of RMBT's bond release application found the following three technical adequacy items: 1) a gully on the site needed repair before the bond release could be approved, 2) the amount of the original bond release request was for $1,546 more than the bond amount shown in the Division's permitting data base, and 3) clarification ofdata in the application. The gully repair was completed on June 25, 2004, and the Division inspected it on July 8, 2004. The Division sent RMBT's consultant an adequacy memo requesting correction of the bond release amount on July 26, 2004, and received a response from the consultant on August 2, 2004 asking to revise the request amount to "all" bond held by the Division, rather than a specific amount. On July 28, 2004 the Division received the the clarification ofdata that the Division had requested. The Division received no written objections, or requests for an informal conference regarding the bond release application. The only comment the Division received was a letter dated 3/23/04 from a landowner, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, expressing satisfaction with the final reclamation. III. CRITERIA FOR BOND RELEASE Phase III Bond Release Phase III is a final bond release. The entire permit azea is being considered for Phase III release. A Phase III bond release can occur: 1. When the minimum period of liability of 10 yeazs is met. [Section 3.02.3(2)(b)]; 2. When the permiee has successfully completed all surface coal mining reclamation operations in accordance with the approved reclamation plan [Section 3.03.1(2)(c)]; 3. When all reclamation requirements of the Rules and the Act are fully met [Section 3.03.1(4)]; and 4. When the final inspection and evaluation procedures of Section 3.03.2 have been satisfied [Section 3.03.1(2)(c)]. IV. OBSERVATIONS AND FINDINGS Comaletion of Minimum Liability Period The site was seeded 12 yeazs ago (in 1992) and only minor interseeding occurred during the next two years; therefore, the 10-yeaz liability period has expired.