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Seneca II-W Mine Phase I Bond Release <br />Page 2 <br />Section 22: <br />Section 23: <br />Section 26: <br />Section 27: <br />Section 34: <br />Section 35: <br />T6N, R88W <br />Section 14: <br />Section 23: <br />Section 24: <br />NW/4, NE1/4, N'/2SE'/4 , SW ASE'A, Portions of N'/2SW'/4, and SW ASE'/4 <br />NW /4, SW A, W/20/2, and W'/20/20/2 <br />W/z, W'/2E/2, and Portions of W /2E/2NE A and W/2E/2SOA <br />E'/z <br />NE'/4, N/2SE/4, and Portions of N/2S/2SE/4 <br />NW A, W'/2NE'A, N/2SW'/4 and Portions of N/2S'/2SW/4, <br />NW ASE/4, NW ASW ASE/4, NW ANOASE'A, and W/2E'/2NE'/4 <br />Tie Across Haul Road <br />Portions of SE/4, SW'/4 <br />Portions of N'/z <br />Portions of NE/4, NW A <br />T6N, R87W Tie Across Haul Road <br />Section 17: Portions of SW'/4, SE/4, NE/4 <br />Section 18: Portions of SE'A <br />Section 19: Portions of N'/z <br />(The bond release area does not include any of the Tie Across Haul Road comdor, only select acres within the mine area) <br />All located west of the 6th Principal Meridian; totaling 4,093 acres. The USGS 7.5 Minute Quadrangle Maps <br />of Hayden Gulch, Hayden, Dunckley, and Mt. Harris, contain the described permit area. <br />SCC is applying for Phase I release on 1,166.2 acres. A reclamation bond in the amount of $11,117,348 is <br />currently in place of which $4,864,928 are being requested for release. <br />Pursuant to Rule 3.03.1, a permittee may request Phase I Bond release upon successful completion of <br />backfilhng, regrading and drainage control in accordance with the approved reclamation plan. For the <br />purposes of this Phase I Bond Release request, the term "reclaimed" means those disturbed/mined areas <br />where successful completion of backfilling, regrading and drainage control, in accordance with the approved <br />reclamation plan, has been completed. The areas requested for bond release were backfilled and graded from <br />the beginning of mining, in 1990 through 2008 in accordance with the Colorado Division of Reclamation, <br />Mining and Safety (CDRMS) rules and regulations. <br />The Phase I reclamation activities have produced a stable landform in compliance with the approved <br />conditions in the CDRMS Permit No. C-82-057. The majority of the grading work was performed with <br />dozers and scrapers. In some cases the major backfilling was done with draglines. All areas affected by the <br />surface mining operations, except as specifically exempted by the CDRMS, were regraded on a timely basis to <br />a stable configuration that conforms to the approved post-mine land use (livestock grazing and wildlife <br />habitat). Rill and gully surveys are conducted annually in the spring of each year to identify areas that have <br />experienced severe erosion or other signs of instability during spring runoff from snowmelt and precipitation