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<br />RECLAMATION REPORT <br />Coors Energy Company (CEC) continues to contract the services of both Cooper <br />Aerial Survey Company of Tucson, Arizona and BE&K/Terranext, LLC (Terranext) <br />in Lakewood, Colorado to provide aerial survey and optical scanning/digitizing <br />services for the 1997 reclamation evaluation and tracking work. In addition to the <br />increased accuracy which CEC believes has been brought to the overall process <br />through the use of these two fines, and the latest mapping and drafting techniques, <br />CEC has also obtained assistance froth Terranext in several areas to enhance its own <br />understanding of the "reclamation process". <br />No additional acreage was "disturbed" during 1997. Portions of the A-Pit haul road <br />located south of the Dugout Pond, an area south and another area southeast of the <br />present south end of B-Pit and a small area west of A-Pit all were graded and covered <br />with two (2) feet of topsand in 1997. These same areas were fertilized and seeded in <br />the Spring of 1997 with an approved cover crop of sorghum. In the Fall of 1997 the <br />areas were drill seeded with the seed mixture as specified in Section 2.05.4 (page <br />115) of the Permit. The total area represented by these parcels is approximately 15.0 <br />acres. <br />• Work also progressed on the final reclamation (dirt work) for the remaining portion <br />of A-Pit where ash disposal will be finished sometime during the first quarter of <br />1998. The area consists of approximately 9 acres, and together with additional <br />portions of the old A-Pit haul road is anticipated to be ready for fertilizer and cover <br />crop (sorghum) seeding in the Spring of 1999. <br />The reclamation summary for the end of 1997 is noted as follows: <br />ACREAGE SiJMMARY <br />Total area remaining to be reclaimed 218.6 acres <br />Total area reclaimed and re-vegetated 194.4 acres <br />Grand Total 413 acres <br /> <br />The total acreage summary and relative status of the acreages are graphically <br />illustrated on the following page. (Please note that acreages identified with certain <br />line items tnay depart somewhat from those reported for years prior to 1996 due to <br />apparent etTOrs in mine surveying and mapping. These errors were identified and <br />corrected between work done for the 1995 AHR Report and the 1996 AHR Report, <br />AHR-1997 -121- Stipulation # 17 <br />/t ~~ z .y Y C <br />