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• 41 <br />so already, please remove all mine disturbance markers, signage, and other mine <br />artifacts. The Division will confirm removal at the next opportunity, weather dependent. <br />A significant area outside the permit boundary on the Toupal pasture and across Highway 12 to <br />the north has been studied for many years for the presence of methane in the soil profile. Soil <br />monitors installed by Basin Resources remain in place at approximately 30 locations in the <br />affected areas. Prior to a final decision, the Division will require that these monitors be <br />removed and the associated small disturbances be reseeded and mulched. Mr. <br />Thompson of Peak Project Management indicated discussions with Mr. Toupal and XTG Ener <br />Company would occur to determine what measures are warranted and welcomed. Please gy <br />provide a summary of the results of those discussions with the Division. The Division <br />will evaluate and discuss this issue in the overall evaluation of the bond release <br />application and include comments in our written findings. <br />Wells locations LA 264 and PAW-9 were visited during the bond release inspection. Upon <br />further review, well PAW-9 is actually PAW-6. Both LA 264 and PAW-9 were confirmed and <br />documented as reclaimed during the August 21, 2007 Division inspection. Alluvial well CCAW-1 <br />?y in Ciruela Canyon was damaged prior to an inspection in March 2006 and was eliminated during <br />gas pipeline construction in early 2007. Another upstream alluvial well, PAW-5, has not been <br />confirmed as reclaimed at this time. The Division will inspect reclaimed well PAW-5 at the <br />next opportunity, weather dependent. <br />In a letter from PPM dated February 13, 2007, Basin Resources requested approval to <br />Q discontinue ground water monitoring and reclaim existing ground water wells. These wells <br />included PAW-5, PAW-6, CCAW-1, NM-20, NM-21, NM-22, NM-23, SF-1, and SF-2. Due to <br />weather at the time, Basin indicated reclamation would be delayed until weather and ground <br />conditions improved. Basin also indicated that another company had expressed interest in <br />acquiring the deep wells. In a letter dated December 12, 2007 from PPM, Basin Resources <br />requests that five wells, NM-20, NM-21, NM-22, NM-23, and SF-2 be withdrawn from the bond <br />release request. What is the disposition and/or plan for well SF-1? <br />?i <br />Adequacy Review of the Bond Release application and Vegetation Samglina Data <br />Review of the application has resulted in the following comments. Specific questions are <br />included as bold text. <br />There are two primary vegetation communities that were disturbed at the Golden Eagle <br />Mine: pastureland in the valley bottoms and rangeland on the uplands. An alluvial <br />valley floor reference area was approved to measure revegetation success in the <br />pasturelands and a rangeland reference area was established for the rangeland <br />(grasslands). The revegetation standard for both communities requires that herbaceous <br />cover and production in the reclaimed areas shall be at least 90% of the cover as <br />determined from the reference area with 90% statistical confidence. Species diversity <br />for the rangeland will be deemed adequate when the reclaimed lands consist of a <br />minimum of two cool season grasses, two warm season grasses and one forb. These <br />species shall each comprise five percent and no more than sixty percent relative cover <br />and shall be perennial non-noxious species. There is no species diversity standard for <br />the pastureland.