1990-10-05_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1981026

• Permit No: C1981026
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 10/5/1990
• Doc Name: Proposed Decision Phase II Bond Release Request for Canadian Strip Mine
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

PROPOSED DECISION - Canadian Strip/Phase II Bond Release
October 1 , 1990
Page 7
The Division is also retaining bond to cover the following projects which
may or may not have to be performed:
1 ) total revegetation failure;
2) finish grading along the settlement cracks.
IV. PROPOSED DECISION
The Division proposes to grant Phase II Bond Release for reclamation
success at the Canadian Strip Mine. Specifically, the Division
acknowledges that topsoil has been replaced according to the reclamation
plan and has been stabilized as evidenced by the fact that erosion from
the entire reclaimed 75.6 acres is less than that which occurred at the
site prior to mining. In addition, the Divis' 'ends that vegetative
cover success standards have been met in the 22.9 ages reclaimed between
1979 and 1981 (Areas I, II and III delineated —Figure 2A of the Bond
Release submittal ) . Vegetation cover success standards of ninety percent
of the reference area cove i h ninety percent statistical accuracy have
not been achieved on the(52.7 Gres reclaimed in 1987. Although the
vegetation cover is suff t to have stabilized the soil . This request
was made by Wyoming Fuel Company in accordance with Rule 3.03 of the
Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining
and Colorado Surface Coal Mining Act, C.R.S. 34-33-125, et. seq.
The Canadian Strip Mine is located 4.5 miles east of Walden, Colorado.
The mine is located in portions of Sections 2, 10 and 11 , T8N, R78W, 6th
P.M. All lands listed above may be located on the USGS 7.5 minute
quadrangle entitled Johnny Moore Mountain.
This proposed decision is based on a site inspection conducted September
5, 1990, review of the monitoring and permit files and information
submitted by the operator in support of the Phase II Bond Release. The
Division determined that the cost of completing reclamation activities at
the site was less than the fifteen percent remaining after an eighty-five
percent release as allowed under a Phase II Bond Release and, thus,
proposes to release $186,612.
The Division proposes to release eighty-five percent of the $746,450
original bond for the maximum disturbance which occurred at the site.
Phase I Bond Release for sixty percent of the $746,450 was granted in
December of 1988, leaving a bond of $298,580. This bond release of
$186,612 will leave a bond of $111 ,968 for the site.
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