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• The cover success standard for all reclaimed sites at the Marr Mine is based upon a weighed average of the two corresponding reference areas. Table 13, 1996 Reclamation -Plant Cover, documents that the "total plant cover" on the 1996 reclamation averaged 32.73 percent. Since this "total plant cover" value exceeds the revegetation success standard (31.70 %), and sample adequacy was achieved for plant cover for the two reference areas and this reclaimed site, it can be concluded by direct comparison that the "total plant cover" for the 1996 Reclamation Block satisfies the revegetation success standard with respect to "total plant cover." Perennial cool season grasses dominated the seeded vegetation in 2005. Russian Wildrye and Westem Wheatgrass were the most wmmonly encountered grasses on tlis site, contributing 21.39 and 9.98 percent, respectively, of the total relative cover on this area The most dominant fort species growing on this site was Lewis Flax which contributed 8.76 percent of the total relative plant cover. The most dominant shrub was Wyoming Big Sagebrush which contributed 8.15 percent of the total relative cover on this reclaimed site. When ESCO sampled this site in 1999 they reported that the total plant cover averaged 32.5 percent and the four dominant species were Western Yarrow, Lewis Flax, Flixweed Tandymustard and Small Burnet which contributed 38.41, 28.26, 7.61 and 5.43 percent, respectively, of the total relative cover on this site. The locations of the 15 cover transacts sampled on this site are shown on Map 5, 1996 Reclamation -Vegetation Traosect Location Map. Copies of the individual field data sheets for the plant cover sampling of this site are found in Appendix L -Copies of 1996 Reclamation - Plant Cover Field Data Sheets. The sample adequacy calculations in Table 2, Kerr Mine Sample . Adequacy Calculations, document that the number of transacts required to describe this site at the 90 perceat confidence interval was 3.2 samples. Production. The results of the 30 production transacts sampled on this area are summarized in Table 14, 1996 Reclamation -Production. This table shows that the average total herbaceous forage production on this site equaled 37.90 g/1/4 m2 . Perennial grasses contributed 30.40 g/1/4 m2 or 80.13 percent of the herbaceous forage produced on this area. Perennial fortis, contributed 7.41 g/1/4 mZ or 19.55 percent of the herbaceous forage production on this area and annuals, contributed 0.09 g/1 /4 m2 or 0.23 percent of the herbaceous forage production on this area. The revegetation forage production standard for this area is 7.40 g/1/4m2. Since this site averaged 21.24 g/1/4mZ, it appears that this area satisfies the revegetation success standard with respect to total herbaceous forage production. The locations of the 30 production transacts sampled on this site are shown on Map 5, 1996 Reclamation -Vegetation Transact Location Map. Copies of the individual field data sheets for the forage production sampling of this site are found in Appendix M -Copies of 1996 Reclamation -Production Field Data Sheets. The sample adequacy calculations in Table 2, Kerr Mine Sample Adequacy Calculations, document that the number of samples required to describe this site at the 90 percent confidence interval was 54.0 transacts. Using the reverse null statistical approach to the production data obtained from this site, yields a • fc value of 8.0554. Since this >c value is greater than the table t value at an alpha error probability 14