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Binns, Janet <br />From: Linda Saunders [saunders615 @live.com] <br />Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:49 AM <br />To: Binns, Janet; dan.hernandez @state.co.us <br />Subject: Bond Release, TR39, and Reference Area and 2010 Reveg Results <br />Janet,Please use this email to answer my quesions <br />1. Has Energy Fuels requested a Phase 2 Bond Release? When will that occur and how much money will be released and <br />how much will remain? <br />Who carries the Bond Insurance if they default? Who gets the bond insurance if they default? <br />2.Although there are 5 reveg areas on the Vento Property, why is the reveg report for all Vento Revegetation? <br />Why is there not a separate one for the Portal Area reveg? <br />Does any of the random transects done in 2006 or 2010 -cover a count of the portal area? <br />3. When will Kent compare the reference areas for the portal woodland reference area and the grassland reference area? <br />4.We want to compare both the original and the new propsed EF portal reference areas. I have identified where I think <br />the reference areas are, but I need you to comfirm and put it on a map. <br />The original reference area is intact and undisturbed. I see know need for a new reference area. <br />5. I want the area where the rilling has occured identified with a permanent marker or staked so we can follow it. <br />What has been done by EF to mitigate it? <br />Is there something that would help pervent it from a step ravine as the water runoff occurs in the future. <br />That isde of the coal hill is very steep. How steel is it? <br />6. According to the 1995 Guidelines that the Division of Mining deeveloped at the request of mining companies as <br />standards to meet, <br />functionality or future use by the property owner is listed as a factor and should be considered. <br />Since 2003 we have had a grazing plan on file with the Soil Conservation Service (Roy Roper represented them at the first <br />on site visit). I have meet twice with Rick Romano, Natural Resource and Conservation Service. ]He had hoped to meet <br />with you on Tuesday, July 26th. <br />We looked at the revegetation in the portal, pond, and refuse pile. Since our future use is grazing, we need the rubber <br />rabbit brush and silver sagebvrush knocked down and the new growth treated with herbicide before reseeding. I have 2 <br />herbicides recommended by JR Phillips Fremont County Weed District. Then, after the recommended period it can be <br />reseeded. Right now we have so much rabbitbrush at the pond and the portal the grasses cannot compete with it <br />These two species are not desirable species for grazing. Even in a drought year there isn't signs of elk browsing it. <br />I cannot believe that the Division of Mining allows rabbitbrush and sagebrush (very invasive species) account for the 20% <br />shrub comver that meets your shrub stem count and cover requirement. <br />Please change your inspection date to Wed, August 3rd, since Paula will be available to attend the meeting. I asked <br />George Patterson to me there and will inform him of the date change also. <br />I am sorry you weren't available on July 26th to meet with Rick Romano. <br />Linda Saunders <br />You have been very helpful through this last year and provided uswith timely and important information. <br />I appreciate that and look forward to our meeting. <br />