2009-09-01_REVISION - C1980005

• Permit No: C1980005
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 9/1/2009
• Doc Name: Adequacy Responses
• From: Seneca Coal Company
• To: DRMS
• Type & Sequence: TR50
• Email Name: DTM
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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