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Species <br />Rate * <br />* double rate for broadcast seeding <br />Needle and Thread Grass <br />1.5 <br />Blue grama grass <br />0.5 <br />Side oats grama <br />2.5 <br />Sand dropseed grass <br />Red three -awn <br />Indian ricegrass <br />1.5 <br />Winterfat <br />1.5 <br />Buckwheat, erioganum <br />Mountain mahogany <br />1.5 <br />Four -wing saltbush <br />2.5 <br />Tall rabbitbrush <br />Brickle bush <br />Blackfoot daisy <br />Cholla cacti <br />One seed juniper <br />1.0 <br />Pinon pine <br />1.0 <br />Yellow sweetclover <br />Western wheatgrass <br />1.0 <br />Intermediate wheatgrass <br />Crested wheatgrass <br />0.5 <br />The relative amounts of the species in the mixture are based on the availability and price at the time <br />of planting. Drought- resistant native grasses are the focus of the mixture in respect to the grass <br />species. If the seed mixture is drilled, seeding rates are 204/acre. If the seed mixture is broadcast, the <br />rate is 40# /acre. Broadcast seeding is followed by a raking or dragging of the surface and an <br />application of straw mulch at 4000 # /acre. <br />The final slope configuration in the pit area will be no more than 3:1. Woody plants, such as tree and <br />shrub species, are included in the seed mixture to promote long -term plant succession and vegetative <br />stability site -wide. The seeding and mulching program is repeated every other year, preferably <br />seeded in the fall or early spring, until a minimum 25% ground cover is attained over the site. <br />Final reclamation of the pit and neighboring highwall will involve the integration of storm ditching <br />from the highwall benches to the final storm ditch network on the pit floor which will route all storm <br />flows to the north detention pond area. The final configuration of the in -pit detention pond (#1) and <br />the pit area will include enlargement of pond #1 for long -term low maintenance and lining of all <br />ditches with rip -rap. It is estimated that approximately 90 acres of relatively flat pit floor land will be <br />re- vegetated and up to 65 acres of excavated highwall bench area will be exposed via mining at the <br />termination of mining at this location. <br />(b) A comparison of the proposed post- mining land use to other land uses in the vicinity and to <br />adopted state and local land use plans and programs. In those instances where the post- mining <br />land use is for industrial, residential, or commercial purposes and such use is not reasonably <br />assured, a plan for revegetation shall be submitted. Appropriate evidence supporting such <br />reasonable assurance shall be submitted; <br />