2010-05-26_REVISION - C1981008 (3)

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C- 1981.008 - SL -1 Preliminary Adequacy Review 26 May 2010 Page 2 of application, with several omissions and inaccuracies. Please update the application to include /correct the following items (each of which the Division should have required, prior to calling the application complete): Bate of Request. no date is shown, although the cover letter is dated August 7, 2009) • Date Permit was Issued; change "1981 ' to "Ma 26, 1983 N • Mine ame: New Hori on Mine (delete " 2' Phase of Bond Release Requested: this descr tion is incomplete —please revise • Bond Company; please change to "Self-Bond" Bond Number: please charge to "S`B -003" Current Total Amount of Bond; please change to $5,042,302. 00 Original total amount of bond for area requested for release) : please provide your best estimate of this number Bates reclamation work performed: there should be greater detail provided .for this item, including years of final grading, topsoiling, and initial seeding. This information, available from the various Annual Reclamation Reports and previous bond release applications, should also be delineated on the maps. Please revise the text, tab %s and maps to incorporate appropriate reclamation deta Us rather than general statements, In accordance with the requirements of Section 3.03.2(l), notice of the application must also be provided to adjoining landowners of the Phase H and Phase HT release areas and to sewage and water treatment th orides; water conservancy and water conservation districts. Phase H Bond Release Request. VVTC has requested Phase ff release for 26.8 acres of irrigated pasture that were initially r veget ted in 2000. The division allows for Phase H bond release upon demonstration of successful vegetation cover establishment of species supportive of the postrnining land use), soil replacement in conformance with permit requirements, and demonstration that suspended solids contribution is not in excess of applicable criteria. Regulatory criteria are specified in Jule 3.03.1(2)(b) and 3.03.1(3)(b Additional information to be provided in a Phase II bond release application is addressed in the ivlsioti's Guideline Regarding Selected Coal Mine Bond Release Issues. Based on review of the relevant sections of the SL -12 application, and in consideration of applicable regulatory requirements and guideline criteria, we have identified a number of eoncems, as listed below. 2. There are discrepancies between the narrative in the SL -12 application and the inforrnation presented in the Rio -Logic Reports. On page 11 of the application, WFC states that the September 30, 2008 Phase 2 vegetation report prepared by f - Logic, Inc., included in Appendix B , demonstrates that "...both the Irrigated Pasture and ryland Pasture areas meet the requirements of the above rule.'? This statement is erroneous; the cited report is limited to results of vegetation sampling for the 46 approxiately 27 acres of Irrigated Pasture ".