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Descri~on of ApaLicant's ?roaos• <br />In 1~7Z the li.~. Depzrt-.ent o: :;~riculture, Soil <br />Conservation Ser•.~ice (SAS) ~reoared a general soils <br />map of Routt County (:`.ap i'3). In 1475 .n order t::o <br />soil sur•.~ey was initiated on undiscu=bed carts of <br />the permit area and on Ener~v ..in2s tlo. 1 and 3 <br />(tfap 2°.) . In 1975 t^e ..,~e-^ouatain Fo_est znd ~znga <br />Experiment Station, rorzstr'; Laborator;, collected <br />sir, undistu-bed topsoil s=_~c'_es zt =nergy '._ne ;:o. 1 <br />for chemical and physical an=_lysis (Table 73). <br />,Additional soil samolin~ ~.aas conducted at rn~_g;; :r'_ne <br />tdo, L by Heil (1975) (L9'3) and the labor_tor~: analysis <br />are presented in Tables 71 and 73, respective'_y. In <br />1978 the SCS conducted an osier two survey for tae <br />Eckman Park area and Ener>> Fuels conducted_dditional <br />soil sampling (1979) of ~-:-;mac Park to confirm tae <br />previous ma~pi^.~ unit bo~.:~daries. <br />Data from toe soil analyses o: the Ecb:~ar. ?ar'~ zrea <br />are presented in Table 71, waere 51 sa~pLes from _'S <br />locations representing the maje: soils to be disturbed <br />by mining were analyzed. Sz-piing locations are s'~o:.-i <br />on M_p 2d . <br />Soils that were analyzed belonged to tae foL'_o•.ciag series: <br />Soil ?tap Dnit <br />Azberg Silty Clay 35D <br />Abor Silty Clay loam 4C, !.° <br />Gapo Clay loam 23A <br />Routt loam Z VD <br />Skylick loam 55 D <br />Skv:,•ay loan 70 D , 70 :' <br />Winevada - SpLitro comp le}: :i3D, :;3F <br />The depth at which these soil samples are <br />collected is not supplied with the baseline <br />data; hoc ever, this is not significant since <br />horizon desio ation is given. Typical pedon <br />descriptions for all of the above soils are <br />supplied, except for Skyway Loam which is <br />characterized by a pedon description for <br />Skyway sandy loam which is adequate. <br />