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24HG1 E4. SXC Project Plena <br />Minor Revision 327- Revision <br />Page 9 of l l <br />The Methane Drainage Well and other drilling experience for Mountain Coal Company <br />has shown that no aquifers have yet been encountered. However, the procedures <br />described above would serve to properly protect any aquifers that would be encountered. <br />RECLAMATION PLAN <br />Reclamation of the pad will follow when it is decided by MCC that the drill hole(s) are <br />not performing their intended purpose. <br />1. Upon completion of each phase of activity at a given site, all debris, trash, and <br />drilling related equipment, will be removed from the site. <br />2. When the mud pit or pits are sufficiently dry, they will be filled with stored <br />sub-soil material and compacted to minimize any settling. <br />3. A backhoe and a bulldozer will redistribute material on and azound the drill <br />pad to achieve as closely as practicable the original contour of the site. The <br />azea will then be ripped or scarified. <br />4. Stored topsoil will be distributed as evenly as possible over the disturbed pad <br />area. <br />5. The entire drill pad area and reclaimed roads will be re-seeded using the <br />MCC/CDMG-agreed seed mix (described in the permit document). <br />This seed mixture will be a minimum of 99 percent pure live seed containing a <br />maximum of 1 percent weeds none of which are noxious. Seed must be <br />distributed at specified pounds per acre. <br />6. The pad areas will be fertilized (30-0-0, minimum NPK), seeded with the <br />approved seed mix, and mulched (certified weed-free straw). <br />7. The access roads will be restored as closely as possible to the approximate <br />original contour, re-seeded, fertilized, and mulched as above. <br />8. The drill pads and access roads reclamation procedure outlined above will <br />apply only to those areas newly disturbed for this proposed project. Existing <br />roads will be left in a condition equal to or better than that observed on <br />Mountain Coal Company's entry into the azea. <br />9. Any coal recovered incidentally to this project will be in the form of cuttings or <br />core and would either be taken back to the mine site or disposed of in the mud <br />pits. <br />