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Exhibit E RECLAMATION PLAN <br /> EXISTING RECLAMATION PLAN <br /> All disturbed areas will be reclaimed for range type lands . <br /> The desired result of reclamation is to provide a surface which <br /> will support native vegetation. This surface must be a slope <br /> which will permit equipment to traverse the area for seed bed <br /> preparation and planting. Earth moving on the area involved in <br /> this permit application will be completed in a manner which will <br /> permit development of the desired surface . <br /> All disturbed areas will be graded to rolling topography <br /> suitable for range land. This will be accomplished by backfilling <br /> mined out pit areas where sloping is needed and the use of <br /> overburden as root zone as a integral part of the mining opera- <br /> tion to the extent feasible . The areas will then be final graded <br /> using dozers prior to replacement of available soil material . <br /> Proposed post mining land is rangeland, the same as present <br /> land uses in the vicinity where land has similar slope and soil <br /> conditions . <br /> All available top soil will be salvaged prior to disturbance <br /> and redistributed on regraded areas prior to reseeding. This <br /> topsoiling and revegetation work will be completed as soon as <br /> each area is mined and no additional surface disturbance is <br /> anticipated. Fertilizing and seeding will be carried out to the <br /> extent practical using recommendations of the SCS as outlined in <br /> EXHIBIT J and dated November 6 , 1990 . <br /> Revegetation - Reclamation of all disturbed land will be for <br /> rangeland. Slopes will be left so that livestock can graze on the <br /> reclaimed area . The foregoing will be done after completion of <br /> mining on areas that will not be redisturbed. <br /> The Soil Conservation Service recommends fertilizing, <br /> planting and mulching, @ 4000 lb/ac of clean straw or grass hay <br /> for the seed bed. <br /> PROPOSED CHANGES <br /> Unless specifically discussed below, the reclamation methods <br /> described and approved in the approved permit application will <br /> remain unchanged. The following text explains the changes to the <br /> reclamation plan as proposed in this amendment . Reclamation will <br /> run concurrent with mining as the site is developed to reduce the <br /> amount of reclamation required at any one time . <br /> The current post mining land uses are listed as rangeland. <br /> Please see the original plan and amendments and their adequacy <br /> responses for details on the reclamation requirements approved. <br /> The current Reclamation Plan for Area A, calls for the base <br /> of the clay bed to be graded and any side slopes to be graded 3h <br /> 8 (revised 12/18/17) <br />