PERMFILE119302

• Permit No: C1981026
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Section_Exhibit Name: COMMUNICATIONS FROM MLRB OSM & BLM
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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445 Union Boulevard • Suite 310 • Lakewood. Colorado 80228 • Telephone [phone]
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December 30, 1981
P7r. Richard Domingue
43ined Land Reclamation Division
423 Centennial Building
1313 Sherman
Denver, Colorado 80203
Dear Mr. Dominguez
By this letter [~yoming Fuel Company is complying with Stipulatioi
H2O of Wyoming Fuel Company's Canadian Strip f9ine Permit.
The stipulation reads as follows:
"t9}-oming Fue] Company shall develop a biennial revegetation
success program and submit it to the Division for review and
approval by December 31, 1981."
The overall objective in evaluation of tayoming Fuel Company's
• revegetation program is to insure on a regular basis that we are
meeting premininq vegetative standan9s. 'Phis regular evaluat]c.n
will provide [^]yominy Fue] Compan with information which can be
used to modify our reclamation approach as necessary.
The primary vegetative characteristics of interest for this
evaluation will be vegetative cover and species composition. Since
reclamation is conducted iti phases it will b~ necessary to evaluate
each phase individually. For this reason, we are proposing to
establish ten (10) permanent baselines located in each reclamation
phase. These baselines will be randomly located. Steel posts ~oill
be established at the beginning end point of each baseline. Trans-
ects for estimating vegetative characteristics will be randomly
located and run perpendicular to each of these baselines. The number
of transects run during an evaluation period ~,~ill depend upon the
statistical confidence desired.
T\t. this time it is rmt.i.c.ipated thnC Ihcsr permanent- baselines
will also be used i.n evaluat.ion of revevetaL_ien success for bond
release. This procedure will allow us to evaluate revegetation over
a period of years rather than relying on a one time sampling etfort.
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