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EXHIBIT E: Reclamation Plan <br />A: The mined area will be replaced with the topsoil removed from the mined area. Any available top soil <br />removed before mining will be stockpiled directly adjacent to the mined area to be replaced as topsoil in <br />the reclamation process. <br />The reclamation process will use track type dozers to push the fill material from the stockpiled topsoil to <br />the mined site. Articulated scrapers may also be used at times to strip overburden from the upland area <br />and haul to the mine site to be distributed in lifts. The overburden will be placed in roughly 12 inch lifts <br />with the fill being compacted as necessary by the weight of the dozers and scrapers placing the fill. <br />B: The postmining land condition and use will be nearly identical to the current. Directly adjacent to the <br />proposed mine site is a 40 acre reclaimed mine site that was restored 10 years ago, The most obvious <br />change premine to post mine will be the elevation of grade will be reduced by 1 to 8 feet. The final <br />grade should fairly closely match that of the reclaimed mine site directly east. The current use of the <br />land is for livestock grazing. The reclaimed site will be suitable for livestock grazing as well. The <br />reclaimed site again is good evidence of what the reclaimed site should resemble. The landowner is a <br />dedicated range�manager and is expected to defer grazing of livestock until�the grass is well established <br />as fie has74 - o- n- strated in the reclaimed land directly adjacent to the mine site. <br />C: The reclamation plan will be in compliance with each applicable requirement noted in section 3.1. <br />1) The post mining use has been determined by the landowner to be grazing land, the same use as <br />premining. The topsoil spoil piles will be protected with silt fence at the toe of pile and any <br />topsoil piles expected to sit for more than 6 months will be broadcast seeded With prosonillet <br />or other annual forage approved by the landowner. Section 3.1 compliance measures are <br />individually discussed in the following sections. <br />D: Any available topsoil will be stockpiled separately adjacent to the area it is removed in approximately <br />5 to 10 acre sections. The topsoil from each of these sections will be piled with 3:1 slopes and silt fence <br />placed at the foot of the pile. If the topsoil pile is expected to sit for periods greater than 6 months, a <br />summer annual plant may be broadcast to vegetate the pile in consultation with the landowner. We <br />flan o: toadcas _p �o o nillel ate late in eitce s of Spgyp d s peracre. The revegetation plan has been <br />created by Brian Johnson of the Lincoln County USDA NRCS, (Attachment to the plan). The grasses <br />included in seed mix are as follows per NRCS recommendation: <br />a) Sand Bluestem, 3.2 PLS /acre <br />b) Sideoats Grama, 1.4 PLS /acre <br />c) Yellow Indiangrass, 2.0 PLS /acre <br />d) Prairie Sandreed, 1.3 PLS /acre <br />e) Switchgrass, 0.8 PLS /acre <br />f) Alfalfa, o.4 PLS acre <br />