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3.0 PERMIT ST(•PULATION z12 <br />~~~ The amended permit Tables 19 and 20 have been included as Attachment 2. <br />Table 19 is composed of several parts. Particularly, the range seed mix <br />has been made more diverse. Rather than listing specific average purities <br />and germinations, Chimney Rock Coal has agreed to purchase whatever is the <br />best seed their commerical producer has in stock. Legume seed will be <br />innoculated. Variations of the range seed mix, as well as planting rates, <br />are also found in Attachment 2. Table 20 has been updated to help take <br />advantage of turrent landowner requests. Sand Bluestem has been added to <br />provide soil holding capabilities for drained, sandy areas. Yellow sweet- <br />clover has been omitted as per the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Coal <br />Groups' requirements. <br />4.0 PERMIT STIPULATION R's 15, 17, 8 11 <br />As seen in Attachment 1, prepared by Mariah Associates in consultation <br />with EMS and Perma Mining, specific vegetative success, diversity success, <br />and dryland reference area evaluations have been proposed. As indicated in <br />the landowner's request, listed as Attachment 3, livestock would be available <br />for utilizing the reclaimed areas as early as the sixth year after reclamation <br />has been completed for an area. It is not expected that grazing would be <br />delayed longer than the ninth year so that the effects of use on the reclaimed <br />areas can be observed. However, the last to-,o years under bond, should Perma <br />desire lands to remain under surety for longer than the ten year minimum <br />period, would be the time when grazing trials would be conducted. A detailed <br />grazing trial would be developed based on the USDA-SCS Pa gosa Springs stocking <br />rate recommendations. This will be done before any such grazing trials <br />commence and would be submitted to the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Coal <br />Group for review. <br />The dryland pasture area will be attempted to be referenced~to pastures <br />of adjacent landowners. Should this not prove to be agreeable to that land- <br />owner, the alternate SCS and premine vegetation type comparisons and weighting <br />reclamation success methods will have to be employed. According to the USDA- <br />SCS in Pagosa Springs, it would be possible to predict productivity for the <br />~ dryland pasture, but it would be more favorable to use the adjacent pasture <br />as reference. It was the opinion of the SCS that this adjoining pasture would <br />38-29 <br />