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5. The Mining Plan Map depicts the various phases of mining and reclamation. Please specify <br /> the acreage values associated with each of the phases. <br /> PLS Response: Please see revised Mining Plan Map(Exhibit Q. <br /> 6. The Mining Plan Map contains date ranges for each of the phases. Please clarify if these date <br /> ranges apply to quarry operations or backfill operations. <br /> PLS Response: The dates on the Mining Plan Map correspond to quarry activities. <br /> 7. Please outline and label all major surface features such as equipment storage areas, existing <br /> and proposed roads, overburden stockpiles and product stockpiles. <br /> PLS Response: Please see revised Mining Plan Map (Exhibit Q. <br /> 6.4.4 Exhibit D -Mining Plan <br /> 8. The Applicant has stated that overburden will be backfilled to a minimum depth of two feet. <br /> Please specify the average depth to which overburden will be replaced; this information is <br /> required to calculation the required financial warranty for the site. <br /> PLS Response: The average depth will be 50 ft. The 50 ft. is the average depth from grade to top <br /> of highwall to be backfilled. Please note,a portion of this backfill will include a final blast to relieve <br /> the slope before rough grading begins. <br /> 9. Please clarify if overburden will be immediately hauled from the quarry area to the active <br /> backfilling phase and backfilled, or if it will stockpiled for any period of time before it is <br /> backfilled. If the overburden will be stockpiled,then please specify the location of the stockpile <br /> and the approximate volume of overburden to be stockpiled at any given time. <br /> PLS Response: PLS will immediately haul from the quarry to the backfill as part of the mine plan. <br /> There will be no stockpiling of backfill material in transition from quarry to backfill. <br /> 10.According to the Mining Plan Map, current quarry operations are occurring with Mining <br /> Area A3. Please confirm that active quarry operations are only occurring in Mining Area A3. <br /> PLS Response: Mining A3 was completed in 2013. Mining Area A2 will be complete in the early <br /> part of 2014. PLS will then move to mining A4 in 2014 after the rip-rap plant is moved. <br /> 11.The Mining Plan states that once backfilling is complete in Backfill Area 1 (BFI), backfilling <br /> will then proceed to BF 11, BF ill, BF IV, etc. However, the Mining Plan also states that <br /> when backfilling is complete in Mining Area 2, backfilling will begin in BF II and then <br /> proceed to BF IV. Please clarify why backfilling will proceed out of sequence from BF Il <br /> to BFIV. <br /> PLS Response: The backfilling will proceed out of numerical sequence to allow for the moving of <br /> the existing rip-rap plant. This plant currently sits on BFUL Once the plant is moved, backfilling <br /> will resume in sequence. <br />