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• <br />The method for sealing portals in Exhibit 9 and page 15 was reviewed by the <br />Division for compliance. The sealing method proposed is to remove all timbers <br />and concrete from the portals, install an MSHA approved portal seal at least <br />25 feet from the entrance and then backfill the opening. The portal area will <br />then be backfilled and sloped to approximate original contour. <br />The operation is in compliance with the requirements of this section. <br />XXIII. Subsidence - Rules 2.05.6(6) and 4.20 <br />Based on the information presented in the application, <br />no renewable resource lands will be affected by the pry <br />operation. The ]and overlying the O.C. No. 2 workings <br />wildlife habitat. The surface is mainly sagebrush and <br />stands of aspen. There are no aquifers which could be <br />operation. <br />it was determined that <br />posed mining <br />is used for grazing and <br />grass with scattered <br />affected by this <br />The Division finds that no renewable resource lands, defined as aquifers, <br />recharge areas, silvicultural, agricultural and pasturelands, exist within the <br />permit area and could be affected by the mining operations. <br />The operation is in compliance with the requirements of this section. <br />XXIV, Special Categories of Mining (Other than AVF and Prime Farmlands) - <br />Ru es an <br />There are no special categories of mining that apply to this operation. The <br />operation does not include variances for experimental practices mountaintop <br />removal, steep slope mining, delay in contemporaneous reclamation for combined <br />surface and underground mining, angering, and off-site or on-site coal <br />processing. <br />The operation is in compliance with the requirements of this section. <br />XXV. tdiscellaneous Compliance - Rules 2.05.6(5), 4.02, 4.12, 4.19, 4,21, <br />and <br />No concerns were identified with respect to the requirements of these sections <br />such as signs and markers, surface coal mining next to underground workings, <br />slides, facilities not at or near the mine site, etc. The proposed opera*_ion <br />is in compliance with the requirements of this section. <br />XXV I, Operations on Land Subject to Limitations or Prohibitions - Rules <br />2. and <br />The Division finds pursuant to the finding required by 2.07.6(2)(d), that the <br />permit area of the proposed operation is not within: <br />a. An area designated unsuitable for surface coal mining operations, <br />-17- <br />