2014-06-20_REVISION - M1981207 (10)

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Blue Pit 112 Permit Amendment • Portable Screen Decks • Portable Stacking/ Transporting Conveyors • Water Truck for dust suppression • Portable Generators for plants • Electric Control Van • Wheel Loader Cat 988, Cat 980 • Cat D -9 size dozer or equivalent • Portable Wash Plant • Portable Concrete Plant and Mixer Trucks to take material off -site • Raw Material Trucks to haul raw gravel from crusher to facilities area Portable Asphalt Plant and Highway Haul Trucks Support equipment will to come to the site on an as- needed basis. The facilities area will house the mine office, the shop, parts storage and a truck scale. The employee and vendor parking area will also be located here. There will be no blasting as part of this operation. No refuse, acid or toxic producing material are expected to be encountered in this operation. If these material are encountered, topsoil will be placed over the area and mining will move to a different area. Any new fencing will be installed according to the Division of Parks and Wildlife's specifications. The operator commits to clearly marking the affected area boundary with stakes surveyed on site, once the permit is approved. It is planned that the material may be used to provide base material for construction projects in the area. One main road will be present in the mining area and will change locations in the pit as mining progresses. In pit roads are not delineated as they will move throughout mining. Access Road The site will continue to use the same haul route to Highway 82, which is a private road and is shown on Map C -2A and Map C -213. The daily or hourly haul traffic is not increasing with the expansion of the reserves. There is an additional haul route when servicing the area to the north of the pit which only produces a very small amount of tonnage per year. This haul route uses CR 103 and CR 104 to access Crystal Creek Road and is shown on Map C -2. Water Handling Water for this site is supplied from the Basin Ditch, Spring Ditch and a well on site. The mining operation has an approved augmentation plan for the use of the water from the Basin Ditch which is located in Appendix A. The water is used for dust suppression, material washing and concrete production. One of the challenges that Western Slope Aggregates faces at this site is mining the reserves under the Basin Ditch. Recovering these resources needs to happen in a way that will not Blue Pit May 2014 D -7