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Summit Brick and Tile Company Fox No 1 Clay Pit <br /> M-1977-219-Adequacy Response#1 November 13, 2017 <br /> tasks completed on affected lands or an acreage reduction request for portions of the <br /> affected lands where final reclamation has been achieved. Released amounts of financial <br /> warranty from these requests could be used to help off-set reclamation costs associated <br /> with the new acreage expansion. <br /> Summit Brick and Tile Company will commit to not expanding the <br /> maximum area of disturbance above 40 acres ±, without first <br /> obtaining the Divisions approval . They will submit an updated <br /> map and a revised Reclamation Cost Estimate as part of the <br /> request . <br /> EXHIBIT E -Reclamation Plan (Rule 6.4.5): <br /> 20. Within Exhibit E, the Applicant states the reclamation methods described and approved <br /> in the existing permit application will remain unchanged. However, due to the scope of <br /> AM-03, previous applications are potentially obsolete. The Division cannot recommend <br /> an approval of AM-03 without being provided all necessary information. The Applicant <br /> shall provide all requirements of Rule 6.4.5 in the form of a new and complete Exhibit E <br /> submittal. Although the Division will review the new submittal for adequacy, the <br /> Division still reviewed the AM-03 Exhibit E narrative and provides the following <br /> inadequacies. <br /> I have review the 1977, 1991 and 1995 Reclamation Plans filed <br /> with the Division and compiled them into a single section that <br /> starts the revised Exhibit E. A copy is attached for the file . <br /> In general some editing was done to make the text more generic <br /> since these plans called for a single 40 acre or less area to be <br /> mined and the new plan is to have nine Mining Areas . In <br /> reviewing the existing plan, reclamation on each area will start <br /> with creating the 3 : 1 slopes above and below the rock face, <br /> replacing the overburden as root zone on the mine floor, <br /> resoiling and grading seed bed areas and drilling the seed. This <br /> does not change as reclamation progresses through the mine . Some <br /> of the information is repeated in what we submitted but instead <br /> of removing it I chose to just add the new information. <br /> 21. The Applicant proposes to downgrade the approved final reclamation slopes at the site <br /> from 3H:1 V to leaving the sandstone at near vertical with the topsoil/overburden and the <br /> 10 <br />