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faces were excavated to provide room for a warehouse, shop, and offices. The warehouse and shop <br />will be left in place for the postmining commercial land use. Thus, the near vertical rock faces will be <br />left in place as approved with PR-3. SCC has provided a Professional Engineer certification in <br />Appendix 14-10 of the PAP for the steep rock slope retention. There have been no slope failures at <br />this location and the steep rock faces remain stable with no problems noted. <br />The entire South Portals reclaimed area for which bond release was requested is stable and in good <br />condition. There were no signs of serious erosion or instability. The former highwall associated with <br />the portal locations has been removed by backfilling and regrading. A slope stability analysis for the <br />portal fill and access road fill is provided in Appendix 14-8 of the PAP. The portal fill and road fill <br />are stable and well maintained. All other reclaimed areas generally blend in well with existing <br />undisturbed landscape. Slopes throughout the South Portal area are in agreement with approved post- <br />mining contours as shown on Postmining Topography Map, Exhibit 6C. <br />Surface runoff control appears adequate. Drainage ditches were constructed in accordance with the <br />approved plan. Sediment and drainage control structures were all functioning as intended and <br />appeared to be properly maintained. Only minor problems were noted at two surface ditch locations <br />including Ditch R-R' where some maintenance of the ditch will be occasionally required and Ditch <br />E 1-E 1' where some ponding occurs in a flat section of the ditch. The facilities area and perimeter <br />locations at the South Portal were well maintained and no significant problems were noted during the <br />bond release inspection. There are no areas identified as erosionally unstable that would be excluded <br />from this Phase I bond release request. <br />Page 9