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Explanation of Budget: <br />This proposal is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Forest Service, Seneca <br />Coal Company, and the Office of Surface Mining National Technology Transfer Team. <br />Because OSM-NTTT grants are not awarded until August, 2006, Seneca Coal will <br />fund operations for the 2006 growing season to avoid a lapse in data collection for the <br />proposed continuation of previous research. The OSM-NTTT grant will then be used <br />to fund operations for the 2007 season and fund a Colorado State University graduate <br />student to serve as a research associate to conduct field operations and summarize <br />data. The U. S. Forest Service will contribute salary costs for the Principal <br />Investigators to oversee the study and prepare a preliminary report of results within <br />the one-year limit of the OSM-NTTT grant. The Forest Service will also provide <br />technical support staff, instrumentation, and equipment to help gather data and will <br />publish apeer-reviewed paper reporting final results of the study. We believe that this <br />collaborative research effort will yield much more complete results that any effort <br />conducted solely with the resources available from the OSM-NTTT grant. <br />Trade Secret Information <br />x There is NO trade secret information contained in this proposal <br />package. <br />z~ <br />