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E vironment, Inc. Page 2 J e 25, 2014 L'GE Star Water Resource. the 1977 Reclamation Plan Map' while the Legal Description for this same filing stated this area to be 54.617 acres. The fact is that the original permit area was issued for only 18.0 acres and is is the acreage that is supported by the application fee paid at that time. In 1977,the application fees were calculated by starting with abase fee of$50.00,then$15.00/acre up to 20 acres, and then in increasing the fee every 20 acres by$5.00. In this case, it would have been$50.00-+ 18 ac@$15.00/ac. =$320.00,the exact amount paid by the applicant. This reage is also supported by_a 3/6/94 memo'to the file from Mr. Bill York-Feirn, in which lie told RVR that the permitted area was only 18 acres in size. In the following text we will show that the information RVR's consultant submitted does not support a 93 acre permit area but only a 75 acre permit area. In 1977,the Goodell Brothers used the property boundary as the legal description but not the permit area(Eastern Parcel).. They,then took out the concrete batch plant site and'some of the area that they did not plan to mine along the south side, in order to reach the final 18 acres they p rmitted. The 1977 Reclamation Plan map shows that.there would eventually be 40 acres disturbed of the 54.617 acres in the property boundary. The remaining 14.617-acres appears to be the concrete plant site and other areas not to be used by the operation. It seems that they intended to amend the permit later to add 22 acres to make the total 40 acres but never got at ound to it: e map,submitted as a Mining Plan Map'on 7/14/1994 is'a little confusing,but if one looks at e title block,the mining limit line is shown as,a dash-circle line. By scaling this map into tocad,we are able to determine that the area circumscribed by this line is about 75 acres. I h ve attached a scaled down copy of that map where I have color coded the permit boundary line showing what I believe the file supports as the AMO1 permit line: It appears that RVR followed the property line in a clockwise direction starting in the northeast corner,then along the,east line, the south line until it-got near the new river channetand ran 50 feet north of,but,parallel to,the n rth bank of the river until it intersected with the east bank of the old channel. It then followed tb e old channel until reaching the overflow ditch where it returned to the property line along"O" Street until returning to the point-of beginning. The legal descriptions shown in the 5/23/94 a plication packet describes the south line of the area as being 50 feet north of the northerly b of the Cache La Pouder River and then running parallel to the river: This suggests that the river corridor was never within the permit boundary. In AM02 we placed this 50 foot setback into the permit and are backfilling along the south bank of the western lake and building the sl arry wall pad in this area. In 1994, Mr. York-Feirn asked for photos showing the proposed permit line. In June 2000, RVR submitted 4 pages of photos' showing the western permit boundary as a series of red topped ' 1977 Reclamation Plan map-DRMS document#PEkw LE58870 Z 1977 Legal description;.DRMS Document#PERWILE46543 ' 3/6/94 York-Feirn note to file-DRMS Document#Permfile549248 ' 1994 Mining Plan Map-DRMS Document#REv84304 5 1994 Legal Description DRMS-Document#REv64105 6 RVR photos west line-DRMS-Documents GENERAL33942,GENERAL39399, GENERAL45925, GENERAL50967