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Introduction At the request of Mr. George V. Patterson, General Mine Manager, of Energy Fuels Coal, Inc. this first yeaz of the final two years of Phase III final bond release revegetation sampling was conducted on the Raton Creek Mine located at Stazkville, Colorado. This sampling effort involved the sampling of all of the reclamation at this site. Since the Raton Creek Mine has been permitted using a technical standazd, no Reference Area was sampled. This sampling effort involved the sampling of approximately 28.4246 acres all of the final reclamation areas at the Raton Creek Mine. Theses areas correspond to the main reclamation area containing approximately 27.0683 acres and the SAE Topsoil Stockpile location containing approximately 1.3563 acres. These azeas aze shown on the enclosed map entitled Raton Creek Mine - 2004 Vegetation Transect Location Map. This revegetation monitoring effort was conducted with the intention of satisfying the first yeaz of the final two yeazs of the Phase III monitoring requirement of the Final Bond Release revegetation sampling requirements for the Raton Creek Mine. Mr. Kent Crofts of IME, who has conducted previous vegetation sampling efforts at the Raton Creek Mine, along with various other existing and proposed mine sites in southern Colorado in the past 26 years, directly supervised all field investigations. Assisting in this sampling effort was Mr. Justin Crofts, who acted as the field party chief, and Mr. David Crofts who acted as field GPS technician and was responsible for deterinining all of the transect locations using the Trimble Model Pro XRS Global Positioning System. All three individuals assisted with the field sampling and data analysis. Methods Maps, in both electronic and hard paper format of the reclaimed areas at the Raton Creek Mine sampled in this revegetation monitoring effort were supplied by Mr. George Patterson, General Mine Manager of Energy Fuels Coal, Inc., who also delineated to the field crews, the exact extent of the reclamation efforts at the Raton Creek Mine. The specific sampling methodologies used in this evaluation are those found in the Division's "Guidelines with Land Use and Vegetation Requirements of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining" issued in June of 1988 and the "Guidelines Regarding Selected Coal Mine Bond Release Issues" issued April 18, 1995. Prior to commencing the field sampling and during the prepazation of this report, the Permit monitoring requirements were examined and discussed with Mr. Patterson and Ms. Janet Bins of the Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology (DMG) regazding the proposed sampling methodologies and data analysis methods to be used. Agreement on the sampling methodology used in this evaluation has been previously approved by the DMG in the Raton Creek Mine Permit and in other revegetation monitoring efforts prior to initiating field sampling and approved by the Division for use at the Raton Creek Mine for this sampling effort. In this