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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 />