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"s coalN Company Seneca Coal Company <br />August 31, 2009 <br />Mr. Daniel Mathews RECEIVED <br />Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br />101 South Yd Suite 301 S <br />Grand Junction, CO 81501 ???0 1; ?09 <br />-uldiriation, <br />cArid Safety <br />RE: Seneca II Mine (Permit C-80-005) <br />Technical Revision No. (TR-50) - Revegetation Monitoring <br />Adequacy Responses <br />Mr. Mathews, <br />Seneca Coal Company (SCC) reviewed your adequacy letter dated August 24, 2009 and has prepared the <br />following responses. <br />1. The narrative under `Revegetation Monitoring" on amended pages 13-25 and 13-26 indicates that the periodic <br />• quantitative vegetation monitoring that has previously been conducted would be discontinued However, there is still a <br />brief section on amended page 13-26 that addresses sampling parameters for quantitative monitoring (cover and <br />production), which would seem to imply that some quantitative monitoring would be continued This seems <br />contradictory. <br />Please clarify whetberinterim quantitative monitoring would be continued Ifso, please <br />provide further detail regarding the periodic sampling interval, methodologies and intensity. <br />Ifinterim monitoring would not be continued, please delete the section beginning with "Tbe <br />following discussion.... "and continuing through the end of the "Sampling Parameters" <br />section on amended page 13-26 <br />Response: Page 13-26 has been revised. <br />2. Under `Annual Reporting"on amended page 13-26, Item 2 references a falfa monitoring and Wadge Pasturegra#ng <br />(Appendix 134). The item also includes the note that `area has received Phase II bond release and has been <br />transferred to Sage Creek Coal Company permit': <br />Our understanding is that the Wladge Pasture grazing plan targeted to control alfa fa and the associated monitoring of <br />a falfa is no longer a permit requirement, so inclusion of the commitment under Item 2 would appear to be a relict that <br />should be deleted. There is a commitment toprovide documentation regarding `results of annualgra#ng and <br />management in the annual reclamation re <br />ports"under `Postmining Land Use Management" on page 13-7 of the <br />approved PAP. Since no portion of the Seneca II permit area hasyet been transferred into the Sage Creek Coal <br />Company permit, the reference to said transfer should be deleted. <br />• <br />Seneca Coal Company • P.O. Box 670 • Hayden, Colorado 81639 <br />Telephone (970) 276-5217 • FAX (970) 276-5222