2023-01-25_PERMIT FILE - M2023002

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George and Jennifer Quist 2 o Site B — A rectangular area approximately 200ft x ION (20,OOOft2 or 0.5 acres). This maximum area of disturbance includes room for tailings and topsoil storage. This site will be accessible from the non-system access road. This site will be accessed via the main access route approximately 1 Oft x 4,752ft (47,520ft2 or 1.1 acres). o Approximately 5 acres of disturbance, including all excavations, stockpiles, and access. o If no pegmatite is found in the next 2-5 years,the two sites will be reclaimed, and operations will move to the unpatented mining claims of Hilltop, Silver microcline, Sugar Loaf, and Suzie Blue. A modification will be submitted for future disturbance on the Hilltop, Silver microcline, Sugar Loaf, and Suzie Blue. • Only small aspens and shrubs will be cleared for operations at this site, no mature timber will be cleared during prospecting and mining activities. • Recontouring and seeding of disturbed areas will be conducted as part of annual reclamation and close-out. Reclamation will include backfilling prospect pits that show no potential for further development, recontouring the surface, replacing topsoil, and seeding. Seeding will take place at the conclusion of each season using a mixture approved by the USFS. • Use of mechanized equipment (Case 580 SK or John Deere 690 series track hoe, or equivalent) to excavate two dig sites (disturbance described above). This equipment will remain onsite for the duration of the season and will be used for a maximum of sixty (60) 8-hour days(averaging 30 days/year) from June 1 to August 1 of each operating season. • Use of other equipment possibly including hand tools (i.e., picks, shovels, pry bars, sledgehammers, etc.), impact hammers (electrically, battery, or air operated), and possibly a generator and/or portable air compressor. All hand tools will be removed from site daily. • A 2-3-person crew will commute to the site daily with no onsite camping planned. The only structure proposed is a portable toilet from which waste will be removed and transported to a waste management facility at the end of each workday. • Each site will be completely reclaimed at the end of 5 years, unless findings warrant further exploration, in which case a revised plan of operations will be filed preceding further operations. Based on my initial review of your MPO, additional information will be required in accordance with 36 CFR 228.4(c), as well as an environmental (NEPA) analysis. After the South Park Ranger District has completed the review of your MPO, I will provide you, in writing, a list of additional items necessary for you to submit in order to consider your plan complete.