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cropland, and #o which managemen# practices consistent with management of <br />reclaimed areas could be applied fallowing acquisition by W?'. If such suitable <br />lands are looted, and appropriate demonstrations can be made, OLR would <br />approve their use as reference areas, ar would accept standards far cover and <br />production rased an a historic retard obtained from at least ? years of data Pram <br />statistically valid sampling or properly verified hay production records. <br />14 ? GNILR. requested additional description o? methods that would be applied to baled hay to <br />ensure appropriately precise and consistent determination of dry weights, when the "total <br />harvest" method afproduction success demonstration is utilized, The narrative section <br />was properly amended. Ytem Resolved. <br />15, G1Vf LR had painted out that the sample adequacy formula listed in Item on pages <br />?.05,4??)?e?? 1 ?}, ?20?, and ?2??, was mare stringent than the formula required by current <br />regulation. The formula. was properly revised. Item Resolved. <br />1 ?. GNiLR requested additional detail regarding the method to be used to quantify production <br />per acre using the total harvest method, consistent with methodology descriptions provided <br />far baseline total harvest docut?entation. The narrative sections were properly amended. <br />Item Resolved, <br />17.OLR Hated that plans addressing cover sampling techniques and statistically valid <br />demonstrations of success for cover, far irrigated and dryland pasturelands in the H-? <br />area had not been specifically addressed or was out-dated, and requested that the <br />appropriate sections be amended. While the general plans presented in revised Section <br />???5.4??}fie} are generally acceptable, we have the following comments. <br />a} While the general plans presented in the two sections conform with Rule 4.15.11 <br />requirements, presentation to Gl1?L of a detailed protocol for data collection, <br />evaluation, and presentation is strongly advised, prior to initiation of data collection <br />for bond release prefer to the 1995 Bond Release Guideline document}, <br />b} The t-test listed under Item 3, on amended page 2,?5.4????e}-32 of Tab 22 is <br />identical to the "general farm" of the reverse null t-test as listed in Rule <br />4,15.11 {?}?c}. This is in fact the ea?act form of the "Gne Sample" t-test that would <br />be employed if a technical standard is involved. It is also the exact form of the t- <br />testemployed if a reference area is involved, and sample adequacy is achieved in <br />the reference area, where the Standard ?"" in the formula} is the reference area <br />sample mean prefer to the 1995 Bond Release Guideline f'ar further explanation}. <br />However, in the event that sample adequacy were not achieved in the reference area <br />after ? or mare sample observations, a more complicated two sample t-test, with <br />Satterthwaite corrected standard error and degrees of freedom would be warranted, <br />to demonstrate that the reclaimed area population mean is greater than 9a% of the <br />reference area population mean, at the So°Io level of statistical confidence. Please <br />include a narrative commitment under Item of the statistical procedures <br />section, to clarify that, in the event that sample adequacy is not demons#rated <br />8