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Environment, Inc. Page 3 Summit Brick and Tile Company Native/Pierre Mine Adequacy Response 01 December 10, 2020 The maximum affected area is the same as the permit area 35.23 acres and maximum disturbed area is 31.25 acres. For bonding purposes, Summit committed to having no more then 10 acres needing reclamation. The C-1 - Mining Plan Map shows the processing and mining area as disturbed and area along the east side that while disturbed has been reclaimed but not released at that time. EXHIBIT E—Reclamation Plan (Rule 6.4.5): 10. Please provide a signed affidavit certifying that the discarded brick factory materials and processing waste materials, that will be used as backfill material, are clean and inert pursuant to Rule 3.1.5(9)(c). Attached is an inert fill affidavit required by Rule 3.1.5(9)(c). It is inert material consisting of broken concrete and asphalt, reject or broke brick and natural materials screened from the raw material delivered to the brick plant. 11. The post-mining land use is stated to be Residential but on question#13 of the application the post mining land use is marked Industrial/Commercial, please clarify. The property is zoned Residential-2 but is operated under a Non-Conforming use as an I-2 use area. I have attached a copy of the information provided by the City of Pueblo in 1977. Question 13 is Primary present land use The industrial commercial was chosen as it most closely matches the current use and as noted the City said in 1977, the current use was I-2 . The final end use did not change. 12. Does the operator intend to use fertilizer or mulching as part of the reclamation? The existing and proposed Reclamation Plans say no mulching or fertilization is planned. I found a contradiction in the Reclamation Cost Estimate for the Revegetation activity. I have corrected the Exhibit L - Reclamation Cost Estimate to remove any reference to mulching and fertilizer application. 13. The Division requests a copy of the weed control program for the site or include a section that describes the methods of weed control that will be employed for all prohibited noxious weed species, pursuant to Rule 3.1.10(8). I added a section in the Reclamation Plan called Weed Control and have attached a copy of the Weed Control Plan for the record. 14. Please provide the missing seed mix provided by the NRCS that was supposed to the follow the Reclamation Timetable. This statement appears to have been wrong, we presumed it was included in the original Vegetation information. I have included a seed mix table to the Exhibit E - Reclamation Plan showing the proposed seed mix with Pounds-PL5 for each species in the mix. I used White prairieclover as the Lignum since non was spelled out in the original recommendation.