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permit area. The amended permit area includes all other areas from the study done in 1998. The <br />aerial photo included on Map 2.04.10-1 Pre -Mine Vegetation, shows the site in 1998. <br />Table 2.04.3-1 "Acreages by Land Use, New Horizon Mine Permit Area" lists the various land <br />uses within the permit area and the corresponding acreages. A discussion of these various land <br />uses follows. <br />Note: for the 2006 Mid Term Review, pre -mine land uses have been classified according to the <br />listings in Rule 1.04 and a new map has been added to show these uses. This map is Map 2.04.3 <br />Pre -Mine Land Use. Swale Drainage areas are now listed as Pastureland - Irrigated — Swale <br />(IPSW). Ponds are called Developed Water Resource -Ponds. There are no Facility areas. <br />Cropland consists of irrigated orchards (ICO) and irrigated alfalfa hay (IC) areas that are <br />extensively managed. There are other crop areas in the vicinity for silage corn but none in the <br />permit area. Pastureland includes Pastureland Irrigated Hay (IPH), which is alfalfa/grass or grass <br />pastureland that is harvested for hay most years and Pastureland Irrigated Grass (IP), is grass <br />dominated pastureland that is generally not harvested for hay. <br />We believe that one area of former Irrigated Hayland should be classified as Irrigated Cropland <br />on the Morgan property due to consistent baling of hay and good soils. The majority of soils on <br />the Morgan property in the permit area are prime farmland soils, as determined by the NRCS in <br />2008. These changes are reflected in the following maps: 2.04.3 Pre -Mine Land Use and <br />2.04.10-1 Pre -Mine Vegetation. In the 1999 soils and vegetation study conducted by Jim Irvine <br />of IRI, a number of Irrigated Pasture areas and Irrigated Pasture Swales were identified on the <br />Morgan property. Subsequent discussions with the Morgans have taken place where they believe <br />that over the years, the historic use of these areas has been Irrigated Cropland. For this reason, <br />the Irrigated Pasture areas have been re -designated as Irrigated Cropland up through the PR -08 <br />application. The TMR47, LLC property, east of 2700 Road has been both irrigated and used as <br />dryland in the past. <br />There are 5 types of Rangeland - Sagebrush (SG), Sagebrush 1 (SG -1) and Sagebrush 2 (SG -2), <br />Floodplain and Deciduous Trees. Roads (R) are classified as Commercial use and Farmsteads <br />and associated open space disturbances are now classified as Residential use. Existing Disturbed <br />lands have now been called Residential - Open Space Disturbed Areas. No boundaries of these <br />land use areas have been changed; only the classification categories to comply with Rule 1.04. <br />For the 2009 Permit Revision, a slight boundary adjustment due to more accurate surveying has <br />changed the permit boundary from 823.56 acres to 827.44 acres. The changes all occur on the <br />extreme west edge of the permit area on the Morgan property and the WFC property. <br />June 2016 (TR -73) 2.04.3-4 <br />