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• warmth of the year through the end of June, Figure 10 indicates that 2000 was the <br />warmest since 1986. <br />Cover <br />1999 efforts were directed toward monitoring of the revegetation in selected areas at the <br />Seneca II-W Mine. Samples were taken in numbers that experience in the area had <br />shown would usually result in a data set with variance characteristics that approximate <br />"sample adequacy." Inasmuch as formal bond release was not being sought in 1999, <br />such data sets would be sufficient to compare reclaimed area cover values to <br />performance standards. <br />Despite the fact that the year 2000 growing season ranks among the very driest in <br />recent times, the cover of all reclaimed areas monitored exceeded the cover standard <br />and, of course, the legally-required 90% of the cover standard (Figure 1). Cover in the <br />1993 Reclaimed Area (Figure 1) averaged (as adjusted for firsUall hits) 38.3 percent "all- <br />hit" cover, which exceeded 90 percent of the performance standard (24.4 percent, see <br />below). Relative annual and biennial cover observed in 2000 totaled 13.1 percent, <br />• somewhat exceeding the 10 percent limit that would apply to areas in which Phase II <br />bond release was being sought. <br />The average value for "all hit" cover in the 1996 Reclamation Area (Figure 1) was, as <br />adjusted for first/all hits, 38.8 percent, which also exceeded the 24.4 percent level. <br />Relative annual and biennial cover as of 2000 (23.8 percent relative) exceeds that <br />allowed (10 percent) by 13.8 percent. <br />The average value for "all hit" cover in the 1998 Reclamation Area (Figure 1) was, as <br />adjusted for first/all hits, 44.4 percent, which also exceeded the 24.4 percent level. <br />Relative annual and biennial cover as of 2000 (64.9 percent relative) exceeds that <br />allowed (10 percent) by 54.9 percent. However, for young reclamation this extent of <br />annual/biennial cover is not unusual. <br />• <br />