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Bond Held by Division Paid to: 6/23/1993 $35,000.00 6/07/1993 -$2,100.00 Reclamation contractor for weed spraying along road 5/31/1994 -$2,900.00 Reclamation contractor for weed spraying 7/5/1994 -$240.80 Reclamation contractor for weeds raying 1/25/1995 -$4,759.00 Rockcastle Coal Company Various dates -$1,526.20 Reclamation contractor for maintenance 11/25/1997 -$6,915.00 Reclamation contractor for maintenance 5/25/1999 -$627.00 Reclamation contractor for seeding 10/25/1999 $1,300.00 Reclamation contractor for maintenance 9/15/1999 -$13,570.00 Reclamation contractor for road and ditch maintenance 9/1/2005 -$1,020.00 Reclamation contractor for weed control 9/6/2006 442.00 Reclamation contractor for weed control Balance $0.00 Site Inspection History The Grassy Gap Mine was subject to monthly inspections from April 1985 until July 1996. In July 1996, the Division, in accordance with Rule 5.02.2(8), reduced the inspection frequency to one complete inspection and one partial inspection per year. Semi-annual inspections have been conducted since 1997, the most recent occurring June 1, 2009. III. Criteria and Schedule for Bond Release Phase I Rule 3.03.1(2)(a) states, "Up to sixty percent of the applicable bond amount shall be released when the permittee successfully completes backfilling, regrading, and drainage control in accordance with the approved reclamation plan." The approved reclamation plan calls for 24 inches of topsoil to be replaced on the reclaimed mine areas. Phase II Rule 3.03.1(2)(b) states, "Up to eighty-five percent of the applicable bond amount shall be released upon the establishment of vegetation which supports the approved post mining land use and which meets the approved success standard for cover, pursuant to (Rule) 4.15.8, meets applicable productivity for prime farmlands or alluvial valley floors pursuant to 3.03.1(3)(b), or croplands pursuant to 4.15.9. With the exception of prime farmlands, evaluation of vegetation establishment pursuant to this paragraph is based on statistically valid data collected during a single year of the liability period." Rule 3.03.1(3)(b) states, " No more than sixty (60) percent of the bond shall be released so long as the lands to which the release would be applicable are contributing suspended solids to stream flow or runoff outside the permit area in excess of pre-mining levels as determined by baseline data or in excess of levels determined on adjacent non-mined areas; until soil productivity for prime farmlands has returned to equivalent levels of yield as non-mined land of the same soil type on the surrounding area under equivalent management practices as determined from the soil survey performed under 2.04.12 and 2.06.6 and the success determination Grassy Gap TOJ 6/5/2009 6