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-44- <br />• year where you plan everything, everything goes well and then you have the <br />record dry spell or the record hot and dry spell, and you wind up with most of <br />your planting failing. What commitment does the Company have under that kind <br />of circumstances, to try again? <br />MR. BAMBERG: There will be a monitoring period in which the Colorado <br />Mined Land's Board will come down and assure the success of revegetation. The <br />cost to come back in once you've -- the major costs in reclamation is the <br />drainage erosion control and stabilization of the surfaces. The actual <br />planting of the seed is not a -- it has to be done properly. And it's <br />critical but it's not the most expensive item. And you can come in at a <br />second year at a better time. You can try even a third year. You can <br />completely re-seed the area. You can disc it up and re-seed it, or you can <br />spot re-seed based on the type of failure in a certain area. Say, for <br />instance, you do get a, for some reason, an area that didn't. You can come in <br />and test the soils, and there will be a period of monitoring. Sao that the <br />• revegetation is -- will be followed over a period of time and manitored to <br />ensure success. <br />MR. JOUFLAS: How do you classify that climate down there ass far as -- <br />what is it, desert? What's the climate? <br />MR. BAMBERG: It's what I call a step climate. It's a sagebrush on the <br />flats, it has between 8 and 12 inches a year - up on some of these slopes more <br />so. It's a step, it's not a desert because it's cool. But it -- it has <br />widely spaced trees in certain areas with sagebrush. It's a step climate. <br />It's an grid continental climate, precipitation mainly in the spring and fall <br />with same chance of summer thunderstorms. This is a typical stop continental <br />area climate. <br />MR. ENTZ: I've lived there all my life and I've never seer 12 inches of <br />rain. <br /> <br />