2016-01-28_REPORT - M1983194

• Permit No: M1983194
• IBM Index Class Name: Report
• Doc Date: 1/28/2016
• Doc Name: Annual Fee, Report and Map
• From: Natural Soda, LLC
• To: DRMS
• Annual Report Year: 2016
• Email Name: THM
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

A• Natural Soda LLC
2015 Project Status Report & Annual Plan of Development
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction and Project Summary 1
2.0 Description of Project Area 1
2.1 Location and Regional Setting 1
2.2 Leasehold Status 6
3.0 Project Status 6
3.1 Confidential 2015 Project Activities 6
3.1.1 Items of Significance 6
3.1.2 Confidential Cavity Production 7
3.1.3 Confidential 2015 Monthly Production Tons Summary 7
3.1.4 Regulatory Review 8
3.2 Proposed 2015 Activities and Schedule 8
3.2.1 Confidential Processing 8
3.2.2 Well field 8
4.0 2015 Project Activities 9
4.1 On -Site Facilities and Process Description 9
4.1.1 General Arrangement 9
4.1.2 Lab Operation / Sanitation/ ISO 9
4.1.3 Process, Utilities, Facilities 9
4.1.4 Wells Associated With the NS Project 11
4.1.5 Other Activities 11
4.2 New Findings or Developments 16
4.3 Confidential 2015 Operation Results 16
4.4 Geotechnical Program 18
4.4.1 Subsurface Subsidence Geophysical Logging 18
4.4.2 Surface Subsidence Monitoring 18
4.5 Water Well Pumpage 18
5.0 Environmental Monitoring and Protection 20
5.1 Hydrology Monitoring 20
5.1.1 Introduction 20
5.1.2 Stream Gauging Stations 20
5.1.3 Monitoring Wells 22
5.1.4 Process Ponds 22
5.1.5 Potentiometric Surface Maps 22
6.0 Land Disturbance and Reclamation 23
6.1 Summary of 2015 Disturbance 23
6.2 Regulatory Compliance 23
DAUB & ASSOCIATES, INC.
ii January 2016