2025-12-12_PERMIT FILE - M2025063 ‎(2)‎

• Permit No: M2025063
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/12/2025
• Doc Name: Application
• From: Environment, Inc
• To: DRMS
• Email Name: UEA
• Email Name: JLE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

EXHIBIT E RECLAMATION PLAN(CONT)
RECLAMATION PLAN
As reclamation begins one of the 3 options noted above will be
picked. If Option 3 is chosen, a Technical Revision will be
filed with the Division showing the location of the foundations
and update the backfilling plan. Option 2 is a variation of
Option 1 in that it would give the option to limit backfilling if
adequate material is not available to complete Option 1 . The
proposed future use of this site is to return it to it' s existing
use of general agriculture or later to develop it for commercial
purposes (Option 3) .
Mining will create a depression in the terrace deposit that
leaves flat floor 2 feet above the ground water table. When
reclaimed a shallow amphitheater that day lighting out the south-
west side, with a flat bench running north-south approximately 10
to 12 feet below the existing surface will be left . The side
slopes from the existing surface to the top of the fill will be
graded 2H: 1V and then revegetated with grass seed. Clean Inert
Material will be imported and placed in the excavated area as
mining progresses, then an average of 12 inches of overburden to
leave a root zone below the 10 to 12 inches of soil that will be
the final cover. This would happen in all three options making
the reclamation plan very simple in that the reclaimed area will
then be returned to agricultural production by planting a crop at
the start of the next growing season. Review of the RECLAMATION
PLAN MAP in this application packet depicts how we believe the
site will look if Option 1 is picked.
Since the working face will be mined near vertical it will be
necessary to cut/fill it to complete reclamation if not mined to
the outer limits. But as mining reached the outer limits the
plan leave no more than 300 feet of near vertical face each side
of the mining face from the mine floor to the existing surface
for working area. Backfilling will take place on any slope area
outside the 300 feet even though the lower parts of the slope
will be covered as backfilling progresses . By creating the
temporary slopes as mining progresses, we are reducing the amount
of work necessary to reclaim the site if mining stopped prema-
turely.
A maximum of 950 feet of the working face will be left nearly
vertical and will need to be cut/fill sloped if mining ended
early. The excess overburden being stockpiled will in sure that
adequate material is onsite to complete the sloping plan. This
sloping plan will also insure, that if mining ceases before the
backfilling could be completed, only a minor amount of work would
have to be done to finish reclamation on the disturbed area. The
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