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• Soil Recovery Documentation. <br />Color photographs of the Boil profile and landscape were taken to verify the thickness of <br />soil recovered. Copies of those photographs for each soil observation site appear after <br />Table 95.1 on page 7a. This quality control information ie used to verify soil salvage <br />estimates predicted from the haseline soil survey, confirm soil map unit types, justify <br />sal wage thickness, and evaluate soil suitability. Soil salvage occurred in advance of the <br />°A° pit during the 1995 field season (Exhibit 95.2a1. All of [his soil was imported into <br />stockpile GC. Observations within the mixed-brush, sandstone derived soils indicated <br />suitable loamy soil was salvaged down to the fractured sandstone bedrock. The thickness of <br />recovered soil ranged Erom 0.5 feet on ridgetops to about 3.0 feet in Swale or drainage <br />landscapes. <br />SCC will continue to closely monitor soil handling operations during the 1996 field season. <br />Only suitable sources of soil within [he disturbance area will be salvaged to ensure the <br />reclaimed areas are restored to the desired postmine land uses. SCC will obtain variances <br />pursuant to Rule 4.06.2(2) and permit 0 82-057 whenever suitable soil cannot be salvaged <br />exclusively from any map unit because of equipment limits [ions or operator safety concerns. <br />• Soil Redistribu [ion Thickness. <br />SCC is required by Permit C-81-057 and Section 9.06.9/21 (b) of Colorado's Requla [ions for <br />Coal Mining to document and record the soil redistribution thickness Eor each reclamation <br />block using a minimum sampling intensity of one hole per five acres. The soil replacement <br />thickness information is used to adjust soil salvage depths, if necessary, and for bond <br />release purposes. Soil replacement thicknesses were measured August 31, 1995 for reclaimed <br />areas which had soil replaced during 1995 (16.3 acresl. These samples were taken during a <br />CDMS0 inspection by Harb Pavlik and Roy Karo. Data was collected from [wel ve sites. Soil <br />thickness Eor the 1995 reclamation blocks ranged from 1.2 to 1.8 feet as listed in Table <br />95.1, p.7. The mean soil replacement thickness Eor 1995 was 1.4 feet. <br />Spoil Sampling in the Lennox Coal Outcrop Area. <br />No final grading was conducted in any portion of the Lennox Coal outcrop area during the <br />1995 field season. Therefore, no spoil samples were collected. <br />2 <br /> <br />