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Hydro Report are part of the original reclamation plan, <br /> whether they are vegetated, and whether a revegetation efforts <br /> on these areas has a reasonable chance for success . Please <br /> state upon what this opinion is based. Are there documents <br /> relating to either this opinion (s) ? If so, please attach a <br /> copy of such documents to your responses to these <br /> interrogatories or state the circumstances under which these <br /> documents may be inspected and/or copied. <br /> Response: The Geo-Hydro report dated November 30 , 1983 , <br /> was submitted by MCR as a response to certain permit issuance <br /> stipulations . It is contained within Volume 8, Chapter 5 of <br /> the Mid-Continent Resources Coal Basin Mine Permit Renewal <br /> Application. Therefore, all acreages are a part of the <br /> original Reclamation Plan as defined in these interrogatories . <br /> The total area of cut and fill slopes adjacent to the <br /> roads, as documented in the Geo-Hydro Report, is much greater <br /> than that estimated to be in need of revegetation. In order to <br /> account for road side cut and fill slopes which have <br /> revegetated, the Division has included in its estimate only <br /> those slopes observed by Geo-Hydro to exhibit a vegetative <br /> cover rated as "none to occasional . " For purposes of the <br /> Estimated Reclamation Costs by Anticipated Project included in <br /> its Accounting, the Division assumed that vegetation, if any, <br /> on these slopes is inadequate. Therefore, the Division <br /> estimates that there are only 6 . 9 acres of cut slopes and 7 .4 <br /> acres of fill slopes adjacent to Road D-A, E, F, G in need of <br /> revegetation. <br /> The Division believes that revegetation of these slopes <br /> has a reasonable chance for success . This opinion is based <br /> upon observations of slopes which have achieved a degree of <br /> vegetative success in this vicinity. Volume 8, Chapter 5 of <br /> the Permit Renewal Application, and the IMS report also <br /> indicate that these revegetation efforts have a reasonable <br /> chance for success . <br /> Documents related to this interrogatory will be made <br /> available for inspection at a mutually convenient time at the <br /> Division' s office in Denver and\or Grand Junction. <br /> 46 . As we read the DMG Reclamation Accounting, it <br /> appears DMG contemplates performing "mine maintenance" . <br /> Please states what this include d why it is believed to be <br />