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of the proposed access was notified by "return receipt mail", as shown in Attachment "A" (Darrel and Nelva Bearson). As part of the revised Exhibits C and F, the permit area has been expanded to include the access road and is shown on the revised Exhibits. The increased acreage of the permit area is also notated in both the legends of Exhibits C and F and on the map of Exhibit C. The road will be constructed of 1 ft. of compacted base course for its entire length leading to the mining area, to a width of 24 ft. including tapered shoulders to the outward side to allow for positive drainage and at a length of approximately 1300 ft. No other drainage structures will be associated with the road, except for an 18 in culvert through which irrigation flow will pass for the landowner over which the access road will traverse. 5.) The asphalt and concrete batch plants will be incorporated into the required Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment (CDPH&E) combined stormwater and discharge permit for the operation of this site, including the batch plants. In order for the proposed mining and hatching operations to begin, CDPHBE approval for stormwater control, any SPCC plans, and discharge of any operationally produced water to the South Platte River will have to be obtained. The CDPH&E approval criteria will ensure that no environmental degradation to either surface or groundwater systems will occur due to this operation. 6.) Reclamation of the mining area Phases into the end-use, final-reclaimed water- storage reservoir(s) will be concurrent with mining and will generally follow behind the mining by one to one-and-one half years. It is anticipated that approximately 4.5 acres will be mined each year in each Phase and it can be approximated that as a concurrent function, the same amount of acreage will be reclaimed each year, by backfilling, topsoiling, and revegetation, following behind the mining in the time-frame stated previously. 7.) Please see Figure "B" in Attachment "C". All requested details of the Adequacy Review are contained in this figure. The reconstructed Lupton Ditch alignment is not a lateral berm, but in effect, will be a backfilled, impermeable dike designed to separate the reclaimed reservoirs, or to operate them in conjunction through water transfer via a conduit pipe. The conduit pipe location is shown in both plan and cross-section views. The crest of the dike will only be 3 ft. above the designed high- water level of the reservoirs and is to be built parallel to the potential flood-flow of the South Platte River. It will be constructed of a combination of excavated shale, that will provide the bonding and cementing properties to the backfill, and excess topsoil from the site. The shale will be excavated with the same equipment as that already described and listed in the mine plan (scrapers) and will be placed in lifts with alternating layers of topsoil that will be compacted with a dozer, between each combined lift, to ensure mixing and compaction. The dike will be essentially impermeable. The base of the dike will be approximately 180 ft. in width with the crest being approximately 52 ft. in width from waterline to waterline and approximately 34 ft. from shoreline to shoreline. The CDMG required 3:1 and 2:1 slopes will be incorporated, as shown on the figure. The length of the dike will be approximately 1,150 ft. These details are shown, and further explained in the