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The Nevada SCRE cost basis and resulting estimation spreadsheets are used here as there are <br /> no available, standardized methods of calculating reclamation costs available to me through the <br /> Colorado DRMS, Colorado USFS, or Colorado BLM. <br /> The basic cost model includes rates for mob-demob; equipment rental rates including fuel, oil, <br /> and grease (FOG); and labor rates for operators built in to the hourly equipment rates. The <br /> table below approximates costs for reclamation of the anticipated reclamation work over the <br /> life of the operation at the Ten Percenter Claim if an outside contractor was used. Of course, <br /> actual reclamation costs were significantly less than the RCE as backfilling, recontouring, and <br /> seeding was conducted by the Operator as excavations are completed while equipment was <br /> still on site. (The table includes actual mob-demob and equipment operating costs as invoiced <br /> in the fall of 2017 to illustrate true reclamation costs incurred during the 2017 work program.) <br /> The total amount of newly proposed surface disturbance shown in Table 1, in 6.3.3 (1) (f) is <br /> listed as 9.10 acres for years 2018—2022 (the end of the current USFS Plan of Operations). This <br /> disturbance would be entirely within the Proposed Affected Area. The entire Proposed <br /> Affected Area may ultimately be subject to excavation should anticipated results either exceed <br /> expectations or should additional excavation prove warranted under the current USFS <br /> Poo/MPO permit (#092815); however,four areas of possible excavation are listed in Table 1 <br /> and may be the only disturbance created over the life of the permit. <br /> As noted above in the introduction of this section and reiterated here: Large dumps will be <br /> avoided and reclamation efforts will be reduced as the backfill, though rough, will be already <br /> replaced into the trenched area during actual trenching using a cut ahead and fill behind cut <br /> and fill approach. Final recontouring, topsoil replacement, raking, and seeding will be all that <br /> would remain after backfill from this type of excavation. <br /> Excavation, with concurrent backfilling, will take place first. When work is completed in a given <br /> locality, reclamation work(consisting of re-contouring,topsoil replacement, raking, and <br /> placement of felled trees and boulders), will be conducted prior to moving to the next locality. <br /> Seeding would be conducted during the fall as recommended by USFS. <br /> Again, area and volume-wise, over the life of the permit and operation, a maximum of only 2.0 <br /> acres of topsoil replacement/final recontour work and seeding and up to 1,000 yards of trench <br /> backfill work would be necessary at the close of each area or season or at the end of the <br /> permit. <br /> Pre-existing access along with two other sections of pre-existing disturbance will be reclaimed, <br /> per communications with the USFS by seeding alone, as the pre-existing disturbance will not <br /> receive any maintenance or repair work by the equipment on site. As is typical for such <br /> reseeding,the surface will be disturbed where the two tracks exist simply by walking the <br /> excavator over them. This usually creates sufficient scuffing of the surface to create a receptive <br /> seed bed for revegetation. <br /> Reclamation Permit Application for Ten Percenter Claim BLM CMC254209 <br /> USFS File Code 2810,USFS MPO-2018-004 <br />