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B. Rule 3.03.1(2)(a) Sixty Percent <br />This Application contains no request for release under this criteria or schedule (commonly referred to <br />as Phase I). Up to sixty percent of the applicable bond amount shall be released when the permittee <br />successfully completes backfilling, regrading, and drainage control in accordance with the approved <br />reclamation plan. As described above (Paragraph II.A), a bond reduction of $126.890 for release of <br />the Wilson-Loudy Loadout facility from [he Permit and a Phase I bond release of $416,110 for grading <br />and backfilling of disturbed areas was granted in 1987, leaving a bond of $307,000 for remaining <br />reclamation (Phase II and Phase III) work [Proposed Decision on the Bond Release Application for the <br />Meeker Area Mines File No. C-81-032, July 24, 1987 (Findings. 1987)]. <br />C. Rule 3.03.1(2)(b) Eighty-Five Percent <br />Up to eighty-five percent of the applicable bond amount shall be released (commonly referred to as <br />Phase II) upon the establishment of vegetation that (with regard to this Application) supports the <br />approved postmining land use and which meets an approved success standard for cover. However, no <br />more than sixty (60) percent of the bond shall be released so long as the lands to which [he release <br />would be applicable are contributing suspended solids to streamtlow or runoff outside the permit area <br />in excess of premining levels as determined by baseline data or in excess of levels determined on <br />adjacent nonmined areas; or until the essential hydrologic functions and agricultural productivity have <br />been reestablished on alluvial valley Floors. As described above (Paragraph II.A.), a partial Phase II <br />release was approved for $122,979 in 1994, leaving a bond of $184,071 [Proposed Decision and <br />Findings of Compliance for the Meeker Area Mines Phase II Bond Release C-81-032, November 20, <br />1992 (Findings, 1992)]. The Application under consideration incorporates Phase II Bond Release for <br />the areas of the reclaimed site not previously released. Such release is evaluated under Paragraph <br />III.C. below. <br />D. Rule 3.03.1(2)(c) Remaining Bond <br />The remaining portion of the bond amount shall be released when the permittee has successfully <br />completed all surface coal mining reclamation operations in accordance with the approved reclamation <br />plan, and final inspection procedures of 3.03.2 have been satisfied. This shall not be before the <br />expiration of the period specified for revegetation responsibility in 3.02.3. <br />Such a release is evaluated under Paragraph III.D. below. <br />E. Rule 3.03.2(3) Objections to Requested Release <br />Any person with a valid legal interest which might be adversely affected by release of the bond, or any <br />Federal, State, or local government agency which has jurisdiction by law or special expertise with <br />respect to any environmental, social, or economic impact involved in the operation, or is authorized <br />to develop and enforce environmental standards with respect to such operations, shall have the right <br />to file written objections to or comments upon the requested release from bond and file a request for <br />10 20 January 1998 <br />