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requested. The application was complete on June 29, 2009, after the Division received proof <br />of publication of the applicant's public notice. The completeness determination was made in <br />accordance with Section 3.03.2(l)(d). <br />Chevron Mining, Inc. submitted the bond release application following the procedures <br />described in the Act and Regulations. The application also utilized the Division's Guideline <br />Regarding Selected Coal Mine Bond Release Issues, dated April 18, 1995. <br />Public Notice <br />Chevron Mining, Inc. published notice of the bond release application in the Steamboat Pilot <br />& Today once weekly for four consecutive weeks, beginning on May 17, 2009 and ending on <br />June 7, 2009. Chevron Mining Inc., also notified landowners within and adjacent to the mine <br />permit area, and other interested parties of the application for bond release, as required by <br />section 3.03.2(1). <br />The Division received four written objections regarding the bond release application. One <br />written objection was received by the Division on June 09, 2009 in a letter written and <br />submitted by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Steamboat Springs, <br />Colorado. The letter identified three main concerns within the Division's jurisdiction with <br />regard to this bond release request (SL -11). The main concerns identified are as follows: <br />• Concerns that noxious weed that have not been controlled, <br />The absence of woody species on the site, with reference to sagebrush, oak brush, <br />serviceberry, chokecherry, and aspen, <br />And concerns regarding the utilization of rubber rabbitbrush as a woody species on <br />the site, the inability of rubber rabbitbrush to provide adequate wildlife habitat, that <br />rubber rabbitbrush provides little benefit to livestock, and the ability of rubber <br />rabbitbrush to take over disturbed vegetative communities. <br />The Division sent a letter to NRCS on June 11, 2009 acknowledging receipt of the objection <br />letter. Following an initial bond release inspection of the site, the Division responded to the <br />NRCS, in a letter dated August 20, 2009, to the concerns raised on the June 9, 2009 NRCS <br />letter, <br />The Division received a second objection to the bond release via e -mail on November 24, <br />2009 from Mr. John Redd, a landowner of property within the bond release area and land <br />adjacent to the permit area. Mr. Redd expressed concern with weed control on the reclaimed <br />area. Mr. Redd did not specify which noxious weed species he had concerns about, nor did <br />he define the locations of his concern. His concern was of a general nature regarding weeds <br />on the site, and his concern that weed control efforts in 2009 had not had time to demonstrate <br />effectiveness for control of weeds. <br />A third objection letter was received on September 9, 2010, from Mr. Tom Maneotis, a <br />landowner of property within the bond release request area of the mine, as well as lands <br />adjacent to the permit area. Mr. Maneotis expressed concern regarding the timing of a <br />Edna Mine Page 7 April 12, 2013 <br />Phase II. and III Bond Release <br />