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| | Reclamation - Pullen IBLA |
 | | The referral was for the purpose of holding a hearing and rendering a decision on the question of whether the legal predicates for a Phase I release had been satisfied. |
 | | Thus, an area that was "basically level or gently rolling before mining" should, after mining, "retain th[o]se general features." Appellants do not dispute application of this Departmental policy directive, which was relied upon by OSM in the present case. |
 | | See Pacific Coast Coal Co., 118 IBLA 83, 114-15, 117, 98 I.D. Looking at the two tracts of land in their entirety, it is clear, as Judge Torbett found, that there are "no truly substantial deviations" between pre- and postmining contours. |
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