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TR-07 MINING PLAN <br /> 5. The object of this pre-planning of the stockpiling locations is to create a situation where <br /> ideally the overburden can simply be pushed back into the mined out pit and then the soil <br /> spread over the top of the backfilled area. In this way, backfilling is least expensive and <br /> reclamation can be implemented more quickly. <br /> 6. It is also important to keep access corridors to the mining operation in locations that do not <br /> block the ability to reclaim mined out areas. That is, temporary access roads should not be <br /> arranged so they go through areas that are being reclaimed. Ideally, access roads should <br /> follow routes that go around the perimeter of lands being reclaimed so the reclamation of a <br /> relatively large area is not divided into smaller units. When a reclamation parcel is broken <br /> into a patchwork of smaller pieces by various roads or other mining activities, those areas <br /> reclaimed later often remain visibly different from the older reclamation for decades. <br /> Eventually the appearance of the reclaimed areas will merge, but that can take a very long <br /> time. Although keeping access corridors away from reclamation is not required, whenever <br /> possible, it should be implemented in the interest of efficient reclamation. It will be <br /> recognized that such a separation is not always feasible or necessarily efficient in all cases. <br /> When separation is not possible it should always be for a good reason. <br /> Coal Creek Sand Resource Amendment 3 (2005)- M-1988-044 Exhibit D Page 17 <br />