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Table 2.) Acreaee Cateeories as the Operator has Renorted in Technical Revision 04 'Acreage Cate ories Permit Area 2760. Key Revisions 2760 2760 (operator) Affected Area 150 150: : •.300 ` ; . 'Original Operation Bonded. Area 224 ?? 224 Added' Bondin Boundary Area 329 ----- ------------------ ??? 300. DRMS Bonded Area 250 250 250 Based on:these, definitions and acreages, there are several issues that need to be addressed anddefinitions that will need to be:clarified. Issue #X: Bond%ngBoundary's Amounts There is a discrepancy in the numbers of acres that are currently approved:inthe.,., "bonding boundary" acreages. The original "bonding boundary" " area prior to ' Amendment 03"was224 acres. The "bonding boundary" area -added in Amendment 03 area was:321 acres yielding a,total "bonding boundary" of 545 acres. During Technical Revision 03; .15.9 acres, were removed from the Amendment 03 "bonding boundary" area _ leasing 305:1:acres:bonded"for that area. `This 15.9 acres was then added to the "origmal` bonded area". increasing the area from 224 acres to 239:9 acres. In TR04 it does:not. . appear that TR03 acreages were taken into account. In regard to the current Technical, Revision request, from the Division's point of view there should be. 284.1 acres in. the Amendment `.03 ".`bonding boundary" area after removing the 21 acres and there Ishould still be239.9acres in the "original bonded area" yielding a total of 524 acres.'still in. the "Bonding Boundary :area. The acreages in.the Technical Revision 04 submittal do not match these, numbers. Please clarify these discrepancies. Issue #2: DRMS Bonded Area versus Bonding Boundary The current financial warranty`heId by the, Division is based, on, a disturbed area amount,,: of 256 acres. Overall, it does'not appear that the so called `Bonding Boundary" is actually the area•that is c"urgently bonded fori.e. we do not havea bond in place,for:524: acres but for 250 ,acres: Based on your definition of "Bonding Boundary",.the area that is.. currently, bonded by`the Division does are not equal this amount, the reason for this may lay. .in the stepped" bonding method described in the Amendment 03 application :However his is unclear; if more land is to be affected than 250.acres, "the .bond; will `need to be adjusted.. Or, the definition of Bonding. Boundary may need to be updated; changed or. clarified. ' Issue'#3:;0perat6r allowed Affected Land, Bonding Boundary and the Divisions Bonded Area Based. onthe` Amendment 03 application, it states on page 13 of the mining plan, that "rio more than 150 acres of mining activity be disturbed at any one time." This acreage ' amount did not include the access roads or land that has.beeri final graded, and "placed in . 3