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documents will be made available for inspection at a mutually <br /> convenient time at the Division' s offices in Denver and\or <br /> Grand Junction. <br /> 44 . If we read the DMG Reclamation Accounting <br /> correctly, it appears DMG proposes to spend $124, 421 to <br /> revegetate mine bench outslopes at high elevations, with <br /> severe angles of repose, containing principally Mancos shale, <br /> and with little, if any, topsoil . Please explain what work <br /> has been or is proposed for this revegetation feature by <br /> location, component and cost, where in the approved <br /> Reclamation Plan this work is the responsibility of MCR and <br /> where this is covered in the Reclamation Bond? If this work <br /> is not covered by the approved Reclamation Bond, what is the <br /> authority for it? Are there documents relating to either <br /> these costs or reseeding at such elevation and under such <br /> conditions? If so, please attach a copy of such documents to <br /> your responses to these interrogatories or state the <br /> circumstances under which these documents may be inspected <br /> and/or copied. <br /> Response: Objection: The conditions set forth in the <br /> first sentence of this interrogatory are vague and\or <br /> inaccurate, and as such do not correctly describe the <br /> conditions at the mine bench outslopes . For example, there is <br /> no Mancos Shale involved. Furthermore, it is unclear what the <br /> defendants mean by "severe angle of repose. " Without waiving <br /> this objection, the Division answers as follows . <br /> The project which you refer to by the estimated cost of <br /> $124 , 421, "Mine Bench Outslope Revegetation (Mines 1, 2, 3 , <br /> Fan 5, Roads D-A, E, F, G slopes) " entails revegetation of <br /> both the bench outslopes and revegetation of cut and fill <br /> slopes adjacent to mine roads in the vicinity of the targeted <br /> mine bench outslopes, not just revegetation of the mine bench <br /> outslopes as stated in this interrogatory. <br /> Job components are tabulated by location, component and <br /> anticipated cost in that part of the Division' s Accounting <br /> titled Estimated Reclamation Costs by Anticipated Project, <br /> dated January 21, 1998 . <br /> Job components include creation of small benches on the <br /> slopes, followed by seeding, fertilization and mulch <br /> application. <br /> 25 <br />