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<br />Seneca 1111V 2005 <br />Phase III Cover Performance Standard <br /> <br />Vegetation Type Mean <br />Cover"` % of Affected <br />Areas <br />Sagebrush/Snowberry a 23.8 31.3 <br />Mountain Brush a 27.9 34.5 <br />Aspen Woodland a 60.7 11.0 <br />Steep Mountain Brush 44.1 12.8 <br />Alkali Sage./West. Whtgrs. ° 18.5 10.4 <br />1998 Reclamation Area 27.8 NA <br />2003 Reclamation Area 21.9 NA <br />"All-hit" ref. area cover standard for 2005 (Adj. Means weighted by % of <br />Affected Area) = 37.3%. <br />90 percent of 2005 ref. area cover standard = 0.9 x 31.3 = 28.2 <br />"Percent "all-hit" cover (absolute) by herbaceous species as corrected for <br />"allowable" annual and biennial cover (i.e. no more than 10 percent relative cover <br />allowed, See CDMG 1995, 1.IV.A.). Cover by noxious weed species, if any, also <br />subtracted. <br />e Seneca IIW extended reference area values from data collected in 2005 <br />u Seneca IIWS extended reference area values from data collected in 1997; this <br />year was the third above-average moisture year in a row and this cover figure <br />may be un-representatively high as was the level on Alkali Sagebrush that year. <br />° Seneca II Mine average of four years (2001 to 2004) for Alkali Sagebrush <br />Reference Area <br />As can be seen in Figure 1, the allowable total "all hiY' herbaceous cover <br />observed in the 1998 reclaimed area sampled fell slightly below 90 percent of the <br />standard set by the reference areas, but is well within the 90 percent confidence <br />limit. That of the two-year old 2003 reclaimed areas was lower (though its <br />13 <br />