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the first 25 acres of permanent retl amation on final graded spoil will not be completed until 1994. Therefore, sampling from shallow postmine soil pits will not be initiated until the 1997 or 1998 field seasons. Soil Replacement Technique. The soil replacement area for the 1993 field season is shown on Exhibit 93.2, 1993 Soil Balance Map. Soil was replaced on 18.5 acres of final graded slopes in the lower mine block boxcut area. A Clay loam/clay subsoil from Soil Stockpile P1 (PCC, 1993) was spread over most of this reclaimed area. The subsoiled area was then covered with a thin veneer of direct hauled topsoil. Direct hauled soil was also used on those areas not receiving subsoil. Soil Balance. Peabody is submitting the soil balance with the Annual Reclamation Report as required by Permit C-82-057, Tab 21, Pages 5, 32, and 33, and as recommended by Section 2.04.13(2) of Colorado's Regulations for Coal Mining. The soil balance is completed to ensure soil is salvaged, stockpiled, and replaced as recommended and approved in the permit, and, if necessary, to readjust soil salvage and redistribution thickness. the soil information is also used to update the soil volume information Peabody submitted with the 1992 Annual Reclamation Report (PCC, 1993) and confirm the mean soil replacement thickness for the first five-year permit term. Soil Salvage and Storeae. The disturbance area from which soil was salvaged and the soil stoekpile sites as of December 31, 1993 are shown on the 1993 Soil Balance Map, Exhibit 93.2. During 1993, soil was imported to stockpile Sites P2, GG, II, and JJ. Soil was exported from Stockpile Site P1, completely depleting its reserve. The following technique was used to prepare the 1993 Soil Balance Map. The soil salvage area end existing soil stockpiles, as of December 31, 1993, were transferred from the Seneca II-Y Pit Progress and Reclamation Digital file to a 1" 400' scale Existing Contours Map dated September 26, 1993. This disturbance area, provided by the Seneca II-Y engineering staff, was Confirmed by overlying the black and white 1" = 400' scale aerial ortho photo dated September 26, 1993 (Exhibit 93.4), overlying the Soil Resource Map, Exhibit 92.2, from the 1992 Annual Reclamation Report, and by on-site field checks on August 13 and October 15, 1993. The remaining soil salvage areas and affected lands boundary for the first five-year permit term are shown on Exhibit 93.2, 1993 Soil Balance Map. The soil salvage areas were determined from the estimated limits of mining and reclamation disturbance shown on the Reclamation Schedule, Exhibit 19-1, dated 10!04!93. Proposed soil stockpile sites shown on Exhibit 93.2 were transferred from the Operations 4