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<br />lJ <br />EXHIBIT E <br />Reclamation Plan <br /> <br />The affected land shall be reclaimed to its original land use of <br />wildlife habitat. Due to the severity of slope of the terrain and the <br />hard rock outcropping it would not be applicable to other productive <br />uses. <br />General reclamation plans are to backfill the quarried areas with the <br />limestone overburden, level and grade the overburden to a slope of <br />2 to 1 or less and revegetate with a mixture of: Indian Ricegrass, <br />3.211/acre; Western Wheatgrass, 4.011/acre; Mountain Mahogany, 4.011/acre; <br />Sage, 1.5 11/acre; Rabbit Brush, 2.511/acre. Ponderosa seedings @ 10/acre. <br />The seed will be hand broadcasted at 15.211 per acre in the spring. <br />The method of backfilling the quarried area with overburden was chosed <br />as the best means of achieving reclamation of the affected land For <br />two main reasons: <br />1. The overburden will consist of sufficient quantity of <br />fine material which will allow root growth of grasses <br />and shrubs. The quarried area would otherwise be barren <br />• rock with no or very little chance for revegetation. <br />2. The overburden must be removed to obtain the marketable <br />limestone and therefore must be disposed of. If not <br />replaced in the excavated areas, it would require the <br />additional disturbances of many acres. The proposed <br />post mining land uses will be very compatible with <br />similar terrain in the vicinity. The steep slopes <br />would not have any productive use other than wildlife <br />habitat. This will also match land use plans and pro- <br />grams which designate the area as national forest. <br />Implementation of this reclamation plan will rehabilitate the affected <br />land closely to the existing conditions of natural vegetation which <br />consist of: Indian Ricegrass, Mountain Mahogany, Sage, Rabbit Brush, <br />Ponderosa Pine, Spruce, Juniper, Timber Cone Pine and Aspen. <br />4later, soil and air will not be altered by the mining activity. There <br />is no water present in the proposed mining area. The air quality will <br />not be damaged or permanently altered, and the soil will consist mainly <br />of rock outcropping and fragmented rock when rehabilitated. <br />• <br />