2011-02-28_PERMIT FILE - C1991078A ‎(4)‎

• Permit No: C1991078A
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 2/28/2011
• Section_Exhibit Name: 2.05 Operation and Reclamation Plan
• Media Type: D
• Archive: Yes

• 2.05.4(2)(e)
Reclaimed areas will be checked annually after snowmelt
for the formation of rills and gullies. To document each
inspection, a report will be prepared and the report will be
available for inspection as required under Rule 5.02.4. Rills and
gullies deeper than nine inches will be noted on the report. By
the end of August of the same year, laborers or small equipment
will be used to fill, grade or otherwise stabilize rills and
gullies deeper than nine inches. The repaired area will be seeded
and mulched by the end of the same year. Mulch will be anchored to
the ground with netting if appropriate.
Quantitative monitoring of revegetation success will
occur during the third, ninth and tenth year of the ten year bond
liability period. Monitoring will be consistent with the methods
and analytical techniques used during baseline studies with three
exceptions. First, because a woody plant density standard will not
apply to the site (p. 2.05-28), woody plant density data will not
be collected. Second, third year monitoring will only involve
collection of cover data which will not be collected to adequacy.
Finally, the maximum number of production plots to be collected in
each reference and reclaimed area will be agreed upon with the
Division at the time when a Phase III survey is carried out.
• As stated above, vegetation data collection will be
consistent with methods used during baseline studies (see
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Julv 1992 in Exhibit 5). Data will be collected for cover,
production and woody plant density. Vegetative cover will be based
on first hit data while species diversity data will be based on
multiple hit data. For cover and production, results will be
compared to the reference areas established during the baseline
studies to assess revegetation success.
Three major communities were mapped as part of the 1991
and 1992 baseline studies - native grassland, sagebrush rangeland
and juniper-pinyon (see Drawing 113 - Vegetation Map in Appendix of
1992 Baseline Vegetation Report). Because community lines and
reclamation parcel boundaries rarely correspond to each other, it
is expected that reclamation success will be determined using a
weighted-average comparison as allowed by Rule 4.15.7(4)(b).
Matching reference areas to reclaimed areas is complicated by the
fact that the baseline survey spanned two years. In the case of
the sagebrush rangeland community, differences in the vegetation
parameters between 1991 and 1992 sample areas forced matching these
areas to different reference areas.

2.05-26 September 1994