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Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining & Safety <br />. Annual Reclamation Report for the Year 2008 <br />New Horizon Mine C-81-008 Western Fuels Colorado. LLC <br />Mine name permit # Permittee <br />Address: P.O. Box 628 / 27646 W. 5t' St Nucla. CO 81424 <br />+Division. It should include text, discussion, and maps, at a minimum, in addition to any other reclamation <br />monitoring data as required by the approved permit. The location of the acreage reported under each land status <br />category and year of seeding (if applicable) should be clearly and accurately identified on a map included with the <br />report. <br /> <br /> <br />Land Status Category Last Years Cumulative <br />Total This Calendar Year Cumulative Total <br /> 655.35NH2 + 73.71 NH1 25.9 NH2 + 0.0 NH1 = 754.96 <br />Acres disturbed = 729.06 25.9 <br /> 436.07NH2+73.71 NH1 42.8NH2 + 0.0 NH1 = 552.58 <br />Acres backfilled and graded = 509.78 42.8 <br /> 392.17NH2 + 73.71 NH1 18.OONH2 + 0.0 NH1 = 483.88 <br />Acres topsoiled = 465.88 18.0 <br />Seeding typically begins the minimum 10-year reclamation liability period. Please report the acres for each category <br />below. Do not include acres that have achieved final, Phase III release. <br /> Last Years <br /> Cumulative This Calendar Cumulative Total 10 years or Greater than <br /> Total year less 10 ears 1 <br /> 319.91 NH2+ O.ONH2 + 0.0 307.45(NH2) + 113.71 (NH2) <br /> 73.71 NH1 = NH1= 0.0 452.32 0.0 (NH1) _ + 73.71(NH1) <br />Acres seeded* 393.62 307.45 = 187.42 <br />*include, if necessary, a description of any augmented seeding or cultural practices <br />For the Entire Life of Mine, the total number of acres disturbed 754.96 and the total number of acres: <br />Phase I released 252.44(NH2)+73.71(NH1)=326.15 Phase II released 215.50 (NH1) <br />Phase III released 215.50 (NH1) <br />For Mines in Permanent Cessation: <br />Total acreage in facilities subject to reclamation but yet to be completed <br />For Government Performance and Results Act <br />Acreage in long-term mining or reclamation facilities 2 95.4 <br />Acreage in active mining areas 3 124.0 <br />'(exclude acres where Phase III release has been achieved) <br />2 Includes haul and access roads; temporary dams and impoundments; permanent dams and impoundments; diversion and collector <br />ditches, water and air monitoring sites; topsoil stockpiles; overburden stockpiles; repair, storage and construction areas; office area, <br />. repair shops, and parking; coal stockpiles, loading, and processing areas; railroads; coal conveyors; refuse piles and coal mine waste <br />impoundments; head-of-hollow fills; valley fills; ventilation shafts and entryways; and noncoal waste disposal area (garbage dumps <br />and coal combustion by-products disposal areas). <br />3 Includes pits, topsoil stripped areas in advance of pits, and spoil not backfilled and graded <br />F:\Eng\DATA\Word\Ann Reclaim Report\2008\2008RECRPT.doc