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year permit term, Colowvo committed to the following requirement as excerpted from the <br />Colowvo FindinQS and Proposed Decision to Approve Permit. File No. C-019-81. September <br />18. 1982. <br />"Colowvo has committed, within the application, to include information in an annual report <br />verifying that enough topsoil is being salvaged each year to replace a sufficient amount of <br />soil on regraded areas. The monitoring program will serve to refine or verify the accuracy of <br />topsoil volume estimates by providing accurate yearly topsoil balance assessments. If, in the <br />future, the Division determines that the monitoring has established, that sufficient topsoil is <br />available throughout the life-of--the-mine to allow successful reclamation given the present <br />topsoil salvage plan, the monitoring requirement may be suspended." <br />Cotowyo had satisfied the requirements of this commitment and [he information was reported <br />in the 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986 Colowvo Annual RepoRS. The data indicated that <br />sufficient topsoil was available throughout the life of the mine to allow successful <br />reclamation given the present topsoil salvage plan. <br />Subsequently a request was made to the Division at permit renewal that, based on the data <br />supplied, this monitoring requirement be suspended. This request was subsequently granted. <br />The time period during the year when topsoil removal, distribution and revegetation <br />operations take place depends solely on the weather. Generally, topsoil removal and <br />distribution operations will begin in the spring when soil conditions allow the movement of <br />topsoil, and may continue until late fall until weather conditions prohibit any further topsoil <br />handling. Revegetation, typically, will take place during the early spring or fall. <br />The topsoil removal plan indicates that topsoil removed since the initiation of operations has <br />been placed in designated stockpiles as shown on the Topsoil Handling Maps 28A and 288. <br />Most of the topsoil from the initial boxcut area as shown on the Mine Plan Map (Map 23) has <br />been stockpiled, since only very limited regraded areas were available for immediate <br />reapplication. <br /> <br />2.05-25 Revision Date: 6/18/02 <br />Revision No: MR-57 <br />