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Section 816.53 (c) Continued. •~ of this Section, until release of the bond or other equivalent guarantee required by Subchapter J for the area in which the well is located. See 30 CFR 816.53 (a) Section 816.54 Hydrologic balance: Water rights and replacement Any person who conducts surface mining activities shall replace the xater supply of an owner of interest in real property who obtains all or part of his or her supply cf water for domestic, agricultural, industrial, or other legitimate use from an underground or surface source, where the water supply has been affected by contamination, diminution, or interruption proximately resulting from the surface mining activities. As discussed in detail under Section 779.17, Energ}• Fuels owns • sufficient senior water rights in the general area to replace any - water rights injured in the process of mining. Specifically, there are two reservoirs holding senior water rights not wholly owned by Energy Fuels which will be removed by mining activity. These reservoirs, named Eckman Park Reservoir No. 3 and Eckman Park Reservoir No. 2 with decreed capacities of 36.41 acre-feet are shown on the Twentymile Park Hydrology (Map 6). Energy Fuels owns 577/937 interest in the in Eckman Park Reservoirs and the remaining 360/937 interest is owned by Papoulas Land and Cattle Company. Application has been made to the Water Court, Division No. 6, State of Colorado in Case No. W-1186-77 to move the decreed point of storage for Energy Fuels' interest in the Eckman Park Reservoir No. 3 to Sedimentation Pond A located in the northeast quarter of Section 7, Township 4 North, Range 86 West, described and referenced in the discussion under Section 816.46. Application • to the Water Court has been made to move the remaining 360/977 interest owned by the Papoulas Land and Cattle Company to the same 816-64