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New Horizon Mine TR-57 <br />2°d Adequacy Review <br />21-Oct-2008 <br />Page 14 of 15 <br />which address both topsoil and subsoil testing. Please amend the section as <br />appropriate to eliminate confusion. <br />Item Resolved <br />Comments Specific to Prime Farmland Regulatory Requirements <br />37. Please specify, within the appropriate application section, the proposed method and <br />type of equipment to be used for removal, storage, and replacement of soil in <br />accordance with Rule 4.25, pursuant to Rule 2.06 6(2) (b). <br />Item Resolved <br />38. Rule 4.25.3(1) requires segregation of the A horizon of the natural soil, except where <br />it can be shown that other available soil materials will create a final soil having a <br />greater productive capacity... <br />The salvage plan presented in the application would include upper portions of the B <br />horizon, in addition to the A horizon, in the upper lift. This approach may be <br />approvable for the soil types in the 98E map unit, due to practical considerations <br />associated with the typically thin A horizons and lack of clear visual distinction <br />between the A and upper B horizons. Please address this provision and provide <br />appropriate documentation to support the proposed approach. <br />Item Resolved <br />39. Note that the revegetation success demonstration requirements for prime farmland <br />crop production, as outlined in Rule 4.25.5(3), differ in some respects from the <br />requirements applicable to non-prime farmland crop production. Please include a <br />narrative section describing the specific approaches and procedures that will be <br />employed to demonstrate success of revegetation for prime farmland areas. <br />Although the'Table of Contents for amended Section 2.05.4(2)(d) lists a sub- <br />section titled "Prime Farmland Revegetation Success Standards", no such <br />section was included in the amended narrative. On further consideration, it may <br />be appropriate that the necessary prime farmland revegetation success <br />standards and success demonstration methods section be addressed within a new <br />sub-section of permit application section 2.05.4(2)(e) Revegetation, in the permit <br />revision application yet to be submitted. <br />Also, we note that in the amended Table of Contents, Attachment 2.05.4(2)(d)-1 <br />is erroneously listed twice. <br />Please address these matters. If the decision is to address the prime-farmland <br />be <br />T <br />Contents. The duplicate Attachment listing will also need to be corrected <br />14