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EXHIBIT E RECLAMATION PLAN <br /> 1. General Reclamation Plan <br /> 6.4.5(1) <br /> The total disturbed area to be reclaimed under this permit is 335.1 acres. The Young Ranch <br /> Resource will mine a total of 248.9 acres across 469.7 permitted acres. Specific reclamation <br /> plans can be viewed on Map F-1. <br /> To mimic the surrounding natural slopes and to create safe and suitable conditions for <br /> revegetation, sloped quarry walls will be reclaimed to a 2.OH:LOV slope. Sporadic placement of <br /> twenty-five-foot benches of intentional roughened faces, slopes, and cliff bands will be left to <br /> resemble a natural cliff face (Figure 2), WRL slopes will be reclaimed to an overall 2.2H:l.OV <br /> slope with 50-foot benches and will be clad in coarse blasted rock, seeded with dry rangeland <br /> grasses with tree tubelings planted throughout. Flat pads such as the processing area and base of <br /> the mined quarry will be reclaimed at the end of the mine's life by resurfacing and seeding with <br /> rangeland species. <br /> 6.4.5(2)(a) <br /> Reclamation will be mixed forest and shrubs paired with rangeland with ancillary wildlife habitat <br /> benefits for the 469.7 permitted acres, emulating the current land use (Map F-1). Post-mining <br /> land use will return the entire disturbed site back to one of two pre-mine ecosystems: north and <br /> east facing slopes will include evergreen forest and shrubs while south and west facing slopes <br /> will be composed of dry rangeland with native grasses on all flat areas. Final acreage, as shown <br /> on Map F-1,to receive each vegetation type is 199.0 acres of rangeland grasses on flats and <br /> south and west facing slopes. While 115.2 acres of native forest shrubs and tree tubelings will be <br /> planted on north and east facing slopes. <br /> As described in the mining plan, partial reclamation will occur concurrently with mining and will <br /> be possible during the transitions between benches. As each bench is mined down in full levels <br /> from top to bottom, only portions of the southern, western, and eastern exterior and original faces <br /> of the site will remain unchanged(Map F-1). The entire north facing slope, as shown on Map C- <br /> 1, will be reshaped by mining. The newly created mined internal northern, eastern, and western <br /> Young Ranch Resource <br /> December 2021 E-1 Lewicki&Associates <br />