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Thus for 2012, successful revegetation with respect to allowable all -hit herbaceous cover is indicated. <br />[Note that were the Mountain Brush Reference Area mean not upwardly adjusted to the maximum value <br />for the calculation of the performance standard, 90% of the cover standard would have come to 31.5 %]. <br />HERBACEOUS PRODUCTION <br />Calculation of 90% of the production performance standard appropriate for 2012 sampling is <br />demonstrated below. <br />Aspen Reference Area Allowable Herbaceous Production' = 662.0 lbs/acre <br />Mountain Brush Reference Area Allowable Herbaceous Production' = 417.5 lbs/acre <br />Sagebrush Reference Area Allowable Herbaceous Production' = 444.3 lbs/acre <br />Steep Mountain Brush Reference Area Allowable Herbaceous Production' = 323.0 lbs/acre <br />' Herbaceous production adjusted by subtracting annual /biennial plant production in excess of 10% of the remainder. Production by <br />noxious weed species is not collected. <br />40 y , r'rCrt of the Toul.t.ar 5 a!'.ccr'd = 0,90 [10,244' 662,CI,l + 0,489(417,5)- 0,2401:443) 0,02 /1 23,0)] = 432,9 <br />cre <br />As can be seen in Figure C -2, the 2012 BRB -1 mean allowable herbaceous production of 1,130.8 <br />lbs/acre far exceeded 90% of the production performance standard of 432.9 lbs/acre. The average <br />annual and biennial sampled 2012 BRB -1 production was greater than 10% of total herbaceous <br />production (121.3 lbs/acre non - noxious annuals and biennials) and therefore an "excess" annual /biennial <br />production deduction was used in 2012. Noxious weed production was not collected. <br />Since the 2012 BRB -1 allowable herbaceous production exceeds 90% of the production performance <br />standard (Figure C -2, Table C -1), and sample adequacy has not been demonstrated in either the <br />reclaimed or the reference areas (minimum of 30 samples) (Table C -4), reclamation success for Phase III <br />is demonstrated by passing a one sample t -test of the "reverse null" hypothesis (CDMG 2005 revised rule, <br />4.15.11 (2)(c)). The 2012 BRB -1 production data were first evaluated for normality using the Shapiro - <br />Francia test (Table 1). Based on the 2012 BRB -1 production data the normality test was not passed. <br />Consequently a square root transformation was performed and the normality test was passed (Table 1). <br />Hypothesis testing calculations went forward using square root transformed data for both the BRB -1 <br />production data and the production technical standard: <br />20 <br />