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Rule 2.05.4(2)(e) — Revegetation Plan <br />#1 — Item Resolved <br />#2 — Item Resolved <br />#3 — Item Resolved <br />#4 — The Division accessed the Soil Resource data through the NRCS Website. The Division <br />was indeed looking at the correct soil survey. This portion of Montrose county soils <br />information is titled "San Miguel Area, Colorado, Parts of Delores, Montrose, and San <br />Miguel Counties ". Interestingly, WF -C was able to find production values in the printed copy <br />of this soil survey that were not readily locatable on the NRCS website. The production data <br />reported by WF -C for the Ecological Sites provides important potential soil productivity <br />information. The Division concurs that Barx soils do exist as minor inclusions to the NRCS <br />mapping units. If no other comparable locations are available for use as a vegetative <br />reference area, the Division will accept the Hopkins Field site. <br />Rule 2.05.5 — Postmining Land Use <br />#1 — Map 2.05.4 — Post mining Land Use, does not have all the symbols used on the map <br />represented in the legend. Please include in the legend a description of: the sage green in the <br />southern end of the property, the nine red circles with three red lines labeled DH 1 -9, the <br />green checkered area on the Garvey property, and the white areas. Also, in the lower right <br />corner, Kent Crofts signed the map as being prepared on 19 Nov, 2009, while in the lower <br />left corner, it says the map was created on 6/14/10. Please clarify and use the correct date on <br />the map. <br />#2 —In section 2.05.5, page 4, last paragraph of the permit application, WFC is proposing to <br />change "Irrigated Pasture to Dryland Pasture." This may be a typo that needs to be corrected. <br />If it is not a typo, then WFC needs to discuss why it is proposing to lower the production <br />value of the irrigated pasture. Rule 4.16 clearly states that "All areas affected by surface coal <br />mining operation shall be restored in a timely manner: 1) to conditions that are capable of <br />supporting the uses which they were capable of supporting before any mining..." Also, the <br />contract with the land owner, Stan Garvey, does not have provisions for converting irrigated <br />pasture to dryland pasture (Appendix 2.05.5 -1 in PAP). Please explain why WFC is <br />proposing to convert irrigated pasture to dryland pasture. <br />#3 — Item Resolved <br />3 <br />