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..„„„ LANGSTON CONCRETE INC„ The second request stems from the recent compliance inspection with the DRMS official on Jan. 23, 2024. During the inspection we compared previous maps and notes to current site conditions and felt that we may have gone over the affected acreage limits. Recent slowdowns in the construction market and economy have allowed us more free time to focus mining efforts on progressive steps at the mine. So, we have been recently working on setting back the next set of benches to clear off overburden for future mining in the coming year. After the DRMS official returned back to the Division and did some comparative estimating, it was determined that we are in fact over our max affected acreage limit at the mine. In 2015 we submitted a technical revision to increase affected acres as we had just purchased the property and discovered through an inspection with Mr. Cazier that the pit was out of compliance when we took ownership. At the time, we asked to be increased to 50 acres to get into compliance. According to the recent inspection, we are currently sitting at 55 acres of disturbed area. Upon reviewing the TR from 2015 and all the associated documents, there was a lot of discussion with Mr. Cazier about trying to release a lot of the land the previous owner had considered "reclaimed." At the time we elected to not release anything and we are glad we did not. Over the last several years we have discovered an incredible amount of marketable material the previous owner had already processed and discarded. We have spent that majority of the last several years simply re-running material from various locations around the pit. We are not sure what the previous owners' intentions were, but it appears they were high grading for one particular material and discarding what they were not specifically after. With this, we have determined we still are not ready to release any of the disturbed area. Our North East corner is really close to being ready for release. However, through the process of coming up with the wash plant connections we are installing, we have learned the North East corner is the closest proximity to our water source. It was discussed that the activity of installing the water line will re-disturb the area; given we will be trenching an underground line in the area. Also, we are not finished cleaning up the piles left by the previous owner. There is still work to be done to get all the marketable material out of the discarded piles. Some of which are near the North East corner. The process is taking longer than we expected, given the amount of reject material in the piles. The material is extremely contaminated and has proven to be inefficient to run through the screening process. However, we do not want to waste it. We still want to get all the marketable material out of it because we feel it is the right thing to do. Furthermore, we are in need of locations to store the overburden the pit is producing. Which brings us to the next part of needing the increase of the affected area. Our gravel pit was purchased as an 89acre piece of land with 77.4acres being permitted for mining. Approximately 11.6acres are owned by our organization, but not permitted. We recently began storing overburden material on a 5acre parcel adjacent to the permitted property. The parcel is on the West side of the permitted boundary. The remaining 6.6acres are on the East side of the permitted property adjacent to Union Street and scattered around the pit in the form of"buffer 902 South Union Street P.O. Box 279 Florence, Co. 81226(719) 784-3878 Office (719) 784-1158 Fax