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16-1, and approximate locations are mapped on Exhibit 16-1. Attachments 16-A and 16-B are water <br />rights studies performed for Seneca Coal Company. <br />There are three adjudicated water sources within the proposed permit area. The Temple Pond No. 2 <br />and the Temple well No. 1 were destroyed by mining. SCC has executed an agreement with the <br />water right owner(s) to replace these two sources by leaving Pond 006 as a permanent impoundment. <br />The Frank Temple Stock Pond is an adjudicated water source which was destroyed by mining of the <br />north pit, and SCC has arranged to leave Pond 005 as a permanent replacement water source. <br />Seneca Coal Company has an augmentation plan approved by the Water Division 6 Water Court to <br />replace any other sources which may be impacted, and to provide supplies when a call is placed on <br />Dry Creek by senior water users. The plan also approved a well permit for the operation's Trout <br />Creek Sandstone water-supply well. <br />Backfilling and grading operations were completed during 2007 within the Wolf Creek/Sage Creek <br />block, and portions of the Wadge mining areas in the Pond 016 and Pond 017 watersheds. The Mine <br />Entrance Road, Haul Road "A" and all remaining haul roads in the South Extension Area will be <br />reduced to postmine configuration, for permanent retention ("A", "J", and segments of "K" and "L"). <br />Drainage channel construction, topsoil redistribution, and revegetation operations were conducted <br />contemporaneously, with most of this work completed during 2006 and 2007. Sedimentation ponds <br />(unless approved for permanent retention) will be reclaimed in subsequent years, upon demonstration <br />that disturbed areas are not contributing sedimentation in excess of pre-mine conditions. The shop <br />facilities area is currently under review for permanent retention. <br />Reclamation success will be demonstrated in compliance with applicable requirements for phased <br />bond release. Revegetation success for final bond release will be demonstrated after a minimum 10 <br />year period following completion of initial seeding (or remedial seeding that does not qualify as <br />normal husbandry). Success will be demonstrated by statistically comparing the reclaimed areas to <br />approved reference areas and technical standards. <br />Seneca II-W Findings Document 15 C1982057 <br />Permit Renewal No. 5 December 9, 2010