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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 Morgan's have taken place where they <br /> believe that over the years, the historic use of these areas has been Irrigated Cropland. For this <br /> reason, the Irrigated Pasture areas have been re-designated as Irrigated Cropland up through the <br /> PR-08 application. The GW46 Trust property, east of 2700 Road has been both irrigated and <br /> used as 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 ERMR property. The TR- <br /> 65 application adds 2.83 acres to encompass the BB Detour Road. The addition changes the <br /> permit area from 827.44 acres to 830.27 acres and affects the Slash M, LLC (Morgan) property. <br /> August 2018 (TR-85) 2.04.3-4 <br />