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• RECLAMATION REPORT Discussion Coors Energy Company (CEC) has continued to contract the services of both Cooper Aerial Survey (CAS) and Terranext (formerly Industrial Compliance), a subsidiary of Southern Pacific Environmental Systems, Inc. (IC), to provide aerial survey and optical scanning/digitizing services for the 1995 reclamation tracking work. In addition to the increased accuracy which CEC believes has been brought to the overall process through the use of these two firms and the latest of techniques, CEC has also sought the assistance of IC in specific azeas to clarify its own understanding of the "reclamation process". It is anticipated that the benefit of this activity will extend beyond CEC to encompass the work of the Division as well. Rule 2.04.13 No additional acreage was "disturbed" during 1995. Reclamation of the Coal Tipple Facility (coal crusher, coal storage silo and coal loadout) progressed • on schedule from 1994, and was completed during the second quarter of 1995. Overburden from the Tipple azea was used to backfill voids created by equipment and structure removal, and topsand was then used to "dress" the entire area as per Reclamation requirement. As indicated in the 1994 AHR Report, remaining tipple debris was disposed of in accordance with Rule 4.11.4, "Disposal of Non-coal Wastes", in the pits, five feet above the water table and four feet below AOC. • The tipple site area, together with parcels (backfilled evaporation pond, approximately 8.1 acres southwest of the tipple location, observed "low areas" in the existing reclamation (based on "Drainage Plan II") and a reclaimed portion of "A" Pit) were fertilized and planted in the Spring of 1995 with sorgum as a cover crop, and seeded in the Fall of `95 with mixtures as specified in Volume 1, Section 2.05.4 (page 114) of the Permit. AHR-1995 -109- STIPULATION #17