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• Introduction <br />At the request of Mr. George Patterson, General Mine Manager of Energy Fuels Coal, Inc. <br />(EFCI) ), interim revegetation monitoring was conducted during the summer of 2006 on three <br />different reclaimed azeas located at the Southfield Mine located neaz Florence, Fremont County, <br />Colorado. <br />Interim revegetation monitoring was conducted on two reclaimed areas at the Southfield Mine <br />site and at the reclaimed Loadout site. At the Southfield Mine site, two reclaimed areas, <br />corresponding to the Vento Reclamation and Corley Reclamation were sampled. All of these <br />areas are located on the Map 1, Mine Site Reclamation found in the 2005 Annual Reclamation <br />Report and contain a total of approximately 37.4 acres. <br />The Vento Reclamation consists of a total of approximately 24.4 acres and corresponds to five <br />different reclamation blocks. A lazge reclamation block corresponding to Revegetated Area 8, <br />located on the west end of the Refuse Pile, a small reclamation block located immediately to the <br />west of Sediment Pond 4, a lazger reclamation block located immediately to the east of Sediment <br />Pond 4, a smaller reclamation block located neaz the west side of the mine portal area, <br />immediately to the west of Fremont County Road 22 and a lazge reclamation block located to the <br />east of Fremont County Road 22 and immediately to the west of the Corley Reclamation. <br />The Corley Reclamation consists of a total of approximately 13 acres located on the eastern most <br />. portion of the old mine facilities area, in the vicinity of the previous coal stockpile and coal <br />ladout areas. The Loadout Reclamation consists of the site corresponding to the old trainload <br />area and is located adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks approximately one mile west of <br />Florence and is bisected by Fremont County Road`! 9. ~q <br />The locations of theses specific reclamation blocks are depicted on the EFCI Annual <br />Reclamation Report Maps and are reproduced on the enclosed vegetation transect location maps. <br />This revegetation monitoring effort was prepared with the intention of satisfying only interim <br />revegetation monitoring requirements. <br />Mr. Kent Crofts of IME, who has conducted numerous previous vegetation sampling efforts at <br />the Southfield Mine, and numerous other mine sites in southern Colorado in the past 28 yeazs, <br />directly supervised all field investigations. Assisting in this sampling effort was Mr. Aazon <br />Hailing, who acted as the field party chief and field GPS technician and was responsible for <br />determining all of the transect locations using the Trimble Model Pro XRS Global Positioning <br />System. Both individuals performed all of the field sampling and data analysis. Assisting as <br />field technicians in the vegetation sampling were Ms. Loraine Crofts. <br />• <br />