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Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining & Safety Annual Reclamation Report for the Year 2008 New Horizon Mine C-81-008 Western Fuels Colorado, LLC Mine name permit # Permittee Address: P.O. Box 628 / 27646 W. 5tn St Nucla CO 81424 +Division. It should include text, discussion, and maps, at a minimum, in addition to any other reclamation monitoring data as required by the approved permit. The location of the acreage reported under each land status category and year of seeding (if applicable) should be clearly and accurately identified on a map included with the report. Land Status Category Last Years Cumulative Total This Calendar Year Cumulative Total 655.35NH2 + 73.71 NH1 25.9 NH2 + 0.0 NH1 = 754.96 Acres disturbed 729.06 25.9 436.07NH2+73.71NH1 = 42.8NH2 + 0.0 NH1 = 552.58 Acres backfilled and graded 509.78 42.8 392.17NH2 + 73.71NH1 18.OONH2 + 0.0 NH1 = 483.88 Acres topsoiled 465.88 18.0 Seeding typically begins the minimum 10-year reclamation liability period. Please report the acres for each category below. Do not include acres that have achieved final, Phase III release. Last Years Cumulative Tot This Calendar ye Cumulative Total 10 years or les Greater than 1 _ ears 1 378.61 NH2+ O.ONH2 + 0.0 NH1 264.9(NH2) +0.0 113.71 (NH2) + 73.71 NH1 = 0.0 452.32 (NH1)=(264.90) 73.71(NH1)= Acres seeded* (452.32) (187.42 *include, if necessary, a description of any augmentea seeamg or cultural Nracuces For the Entire Life of Mine, the total number of acres disturbed 754.96 and the total number of acres: Phase I released 252.44(NH2)+73.71(NH1)=326.15 Phase II released 215.50 (NH1) Phase III released 215.50 (NH1) For Mines in Permanent Cessation: Total acreage in facilities subject to reclamation but yet to be completed For Government Performance and Results Act Acreage in long-term mining or reclamation facilities 2 95.4 Acreage in active mining areas 3 124.0 '(exclude acres where Phase I I I release has been achieved) 2 Includes haul and access roads; temporary dams and impoundments; permanent dams and impoundments; diversion and collector ditches, water and air monitoring sites; topsoil stockpiles; overburden stockpiles; repair, storage and construction areas; office area, repair shops, and parking; coal stockpiles, loading, and processing areas; railroads; coal conveyors; refuse piles and coal mine waste impoundments; head-of-hollow fills; valley fills; ventilation shafts and entryways; and noncoal waste disposal area (garbage dumps and coal combustion by-products disposal areas). s Includes pits, topsoil stripped areas in advance of pits, and spoil not backfilled and graded F:\Eng\DATA\PROJECTS\2011\ANNUAL RECLAMATION REVIEW RESPONSE 2008 & 2010\2008RECRPT 20llResponse.doc