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Appendix 20-1 <br />Postmining Land Use and Permanent Features <br />1.0 Introduction <br />This appendix describes the postmining land use and permanent features that will <br />be left on the landscape following facility closure and final bond release. <br />2.0 Postmining Topography and Drainage <br />The proposed postmining topography is presented on Exhibit 18-1, Post Operational <br />Topography and Vegetation. There are no proposed postmine drainage channels. <br />3.0 Postmining Land Use <br />The proposed postmining land use is presented on Exhibit 20-1, Post-Mining Land <br />Use. As noted in Tab 20, the primary postmine land use is grazing land for <br />livestock. Wildlife habitat over most of the permit area is an additional use. <br />Improved pasture is proposed for the far northern portion of the permit area north <br />of the Walker Ditch and adjacent to Highway 40. <br />HGTI has permits/easements to cross two public roads and accompanying right-of- <br />ways: U.S. Highway 40 and Routt County Road 37. The roads are important <br />transportation corridors in Routt County, Colorado and both the roads and right- <br />of-ways will be retained following facility closure and final reclamation. <br />The surface owners of record for lands within the permit boundary are as follows: <br />• Hayden Gulch Terminal, Inc. <br />• Darrell and Duane Hockett <br />• Routt County, Colorado <br />• State of Colorado, Department of Transportation <br />• State of Colorado, State Land Board <br />• Town of Hayden, Colorado <br />.HGTI is the principal landowner for lands within the permit boundary. Smaller <br />parcels are owned by the other entities. State Land Board Lease 2282 (see <br />Appendix 3-4) indicates that the surface owned by the State Land Board shall be <br />reclaimed to a condition similar to the premine land use. Livestock grazing and <br />RN-03 1 Revised 06/08 <br />