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• <br />Introduction <br />TAB 22 <br />REVEGETATION PLAN <br />Tab 22, Revegetation Plan, details the essential components of the revegetation plan for lands affected <br />within the mine and haul road corridor of the Yoast permit axes. Also included m Tab 22 aze the <br />postmining land use plan, revegetation monitoring, revegetation success standards, surface <br />stabilization, rill and gully control measures, and weed and pest control Backfilling and grading, <br />topsoil maintenance, and topsoil replacement procedures aze presented in Tabs 20 and 21. <br />Revegetation is dependent upon successful completion of the procedures outlined in Tabs 20 and 21. <br />The revegetation plan and postmining land use have been developed based on analysis of premining <br />conditions and land use. The reader is directed to Tab 4 (Land Use), Tab 7 (Hydrologic Description), <br />Tab 9 (Soils), Tab 10 (Vegetation), and Tab 11 (Wildlife) for a review of the premise land use and <br />environmental conditions. <br />• Postm=ni~g,Land Use <br />The xevegetation plan has been developed to achieve a primary posttnining land use of livestock <br />grazing and a secondary use of wildlife habitat It will also aid in landform stability and mitigate <br />impacts to vegetation resources. Furthermore, this plan is designed to meet DMG Rules and <br />Regulations that sate: "All areas affected by surface coal mining operations shall be restored in a <br />timely manner. (1) to conditions that aze capable of supporting the uses which they were capable of <br />supporting before any mining; or (2) to higher or better uses .. "(4.16.1(1), (2)). While mitigation of <br />impacts to vegetation resources will be facilitated by application of best current technology, <br />limitations are to be expected because of the inherent Lengthy successional time frames and ecological <br />characteristics associated with regional native vegetation. <br />Reclaimed azeas will be dominated initially with herbaceous vegetation that will benefit livestock <br />grazing and wildlife habitat Afrer cazeful consideration of wildlife habitat needs in the azea, <br />observations of wildlife use on reclaimed azeas, and how the postmine reclaimed landscape and plant <br />communities would integrate with the undisturbed landforms, vegetation communities, and habitat <br />• suaounding the permit azea, it is estimated this should not result in significant impacts. Successional <br />time frames and the required landform stabilization practices play important roles in the type of <br />vegetation initially established on the reclaimed landscape. The predoatinandy native herbaceous <br />PR-02 [ Revised 01/06 <br />