2015-06-04_REVISION - M1977376 (6)

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(e) Reclamation Schedule Fines Disposal Area - Detail 1 on Exh. F Grading will begin in 2016 on the site. A dozer will slope out the gullies and steep sections. A backhoe will pull up sediment from the drainage along the line of Section C -C. Grass seeding, mulching, and fertilizing can occur the next spring. Mine Area - Detail 2 on Exh. F The post law bench above the present bench being mining is not accessible by equipment, so filling with fines is not possible. Grass seed will be broadcast by hand on this bench. Fertilizer and mulch will be hydrosprayed from below on the seed. This upper bench is slightly more than one acre. This seeding work will be done within the next three years. The small piece of disturbance below the mine area and along the access road will be reclaimed within the next three years by filling with quarry fines and seeded. The area may contain a water tank and a hose for truck filling. As mining continues on the second bench and the succeeding six benches, reclamation will occur concurrently. Backfilling of the 30 foot vertical face will be done with quarry fines at a typical 4:1 slope as the mining moves southward. Seeding with fertilizer and mulch will be done on the slope every second or third year and at the end of that bench mining. Old Quarry Fines Disposal Area - Detail 3 on Exh. F More unmarketable fines will be produced at the mine than can be used in that filling and grading. These excess fines will be hauled to the Old Quarry. Fines placement will begin at the eastern "finger" at the 5840' elevation. Successive filling will move work westward and up the slope into the box canyon area. As a section reached its final elevation, the surface will be graded and seeded. Fertilizer and mulch will be applied. Also the drainage channels will be built in that section. (f) Description of Reclamation (i.) Final Grading — Maximum slopes are 4:1 on the vertical bench faces and in the Old Quarry area. Minimum slopes are 1% on the last bench in the Mine Area at 6000' elevation. (ii.) Seeding — see the seed mix on the following page. (iii) Fertilization per acre --120 lbs. N, 200 lbs. P2O5, 60 lbs. K2O; mulching with clean straw at 2 tons/acre crimped in by a disc or hydro -sprayed wood cellulose fiber mulch application at 2,000 lbs. per acre with tackifier at 100 lbs. per acre. (iv) Revegetation — no potted or B&B trees and shrubs will be installed. All plants are seeded. (v) Topsoiling — No topsoil is available on the site.