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Mr. Dustin Czapla <br />Page 6 of 8 <br />0 Current Pitch Reclamation Project Seed Mix (50 pounds per acre application): <br />u <br />0 <br />0 <br />f <br />'f <br />i <br />r, <br />0 <br />D <br />1 <br />I <br />is <br />Mixture/Variety <br />Percent of Pure Live <br />Seed Mix <br />Slender Wheat, San Luis <br />60 <br />Cicer Milkvetch <br />13 <br />Smooth Brome <br />13 <br />Western Wheat, Arriba <br />14 <br />Seed mixture usage in 2016 included seeding of approximately Y2 acre at the access road <br />adjacent to the former gravel pit just inside the main gate, where repairs to the steep <br />embankment were made following sloughing, and seeding of approximately 3 acres <br />following repairs of tension cracks on the east wall of the South Pit. These reclamation <br />activities will be described in more detail in the 2016 Reclamation Report. <br />HMC requests the seed mixture/varieties approved for use in site revegetation be revised <br />to include the following three additional seed mixes: <br />Proposed Seed Mix 1: Used by the Forest Service at White Pine Reclamation <br />Mixture/Variety <br />Percent of Mixture <br />PLS basis <br />Slender Wheatgrass <br />52 <br />Western Wheat rass <br />26 <br />Tufted Hai[grass <br />10 <br />Arizona Fescue 'Redondo' <br />10 <br />Sulfur Flower <br />0.5 <br />Bi elow's Aster <br />0.5 <br />Rocky Mountain Penstemon <br />0.5 <br />Fringed Sae <br />0.5 <br />Proposed Seed Mix 2: Recommended by Western Native <br />Mixture/Variety <br />Percent of Mixture <br />PLS basis <br />Slender Wheatgrass <br />50 <br />Smooth Brome <br />20 <br />Western Wheatgrass <br />15 <br />Cicer Milkvetch <br />5 <br />Orchardgrass <br />5 <br />Timothy <br />5 <br />Homestake Mining Company 4- PO Bax 40, Sargents, Colorado 81248 <br />