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Y~ <br />Vegetation community diversity required by the permit to be considered successful for the Energy Mine <br />No. 1 and the Eckman Park Mine consists of "alfalfa shall not exceed 75 percent relative percent <br />production and perennial grasses shall provide at least 2~% relative production. Also, no single species <br />shall exceed 75% relative cover. <br />The species comprising the highest cover value at the Energy Mine No. 1 reclaimed block was alfalfa <br />(Medicngo saliva) with 41.7% relative cover. Perennial grass production on the Energy Mine No. 1 <br />block was measured at 56.52% relative production, while relative production contributed by alfalfa was <br />29.74%. Diversity results on the Eckman Park Mine block consisted of 10.6% relative cover, perennial <br />grass production of 57.6%, and alfalfa production of ] 5.0%. These results meet CYCC's standard for <br />vegetative diversity. <br />A small difference from the permit (page 780-137(c)) in vegetative data collection was realized. The <br />permit indicates that a 10-point frame will be used to collect cover data. The operator used an ocular <br />site, Cover-Point Optical Point Projection Device, Mode12, in lieu of a ten-point frame. One hundred <br />cover data points were collected along each 50 M transect. This alternate method is acceptable. The <br />permit states that production data will be collected by clipping five 0.25 MZ quadrats per transect. The <br />operator used a minimum of three 0.5 Mz quadrats per transects. The method described in the permit <br />clips an area 1.25 MZ along each transect while the method used collected 0.5 Mz. This difference is <br />minimal and does not significantly affect the data results. No problems were identified with CYCC's <br />sampling methods. All data was collected to statistical adequacy. <br />Sincerely, <br />Janet Binn . <br />En ;ronment rotection Specialist <br />C:/jhb/c81071/yr 9 review.doc <br />Cc: Dan Hemande2, DMG <br />