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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 includes and why it is believed to be <br />27 <br />