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• • EXHIBIT E RECLAMATION PLAN AND TIMETABLE RECLAMATTON PLAN The proposed future use is to be a series of nine private lakes\ponds with surrounding wildlife habitat areas. We intend to create a quiet haven with facilities for private recreational purposes such as fishing, hunting, boating and swimming. We have prepared this plan to meet the final intended use, i.e. a wildlife habitat reserve and private recreation area. During mining the area will continue to be used as a working ranch and farm on the area not mined or being mined. Since the current vegetation and soils in each lake area varies, the plans discussed below are a general description of methods used and it will be important to review each area individually as it is mined. In the MINING PLAN, we discussed mining 832.49 acres ± within the permit boundary and creating individual ponds around the area. Please refer to MAP EXHIBIT F -RECLAMATION PLAN MAP to see the location of the areas we discuss in this text. The ponds created will have irregular shapes and sizes depending on the amount of material available. This will serve to create a more pleasing appearance and improve the use for the landowners. Setbacks from our property line will be 25 feet_or greater except along the east ditch where we will maintain a_50 foot setback. Along the river we will mine on a 300 feet setback from the center of-th-eiiver-where-large_trees_grow_and 200_feet from the top_of_the bank in_other areas. These_are mining setbacks and. may change due to natural changes to the river c_hann_el. In other words we will mine no closer that 200 feet to the river bank, but this may be less if the river erodes the bank after mining is complete. We will not rebuild the 200 foot buffer if that occurs. The dividers between the lakes are there because of numerous gas lines serving the gas/oil well around the site. We will maintain a 25 foot setbs~ck from each side of the centerline of the-buried--lines. The roads that exist at this mine lie on the gasline ROWS. Around each well we will leave adequate space for the_oil_companies to access and service their wells. For wells in the excavated area we will leave a rectangular pad around the well heads that are in the lake areas. _we will mine no closer than 25 feet to the well heads. Prior to mining near a well we will work with each well owner to leave them access to the wells. No mining will take_p.lace_within 200_feet_of a_well until a working agreement is signed with the oil company involved. The proposed setbacks, shown on the MAP EXHIBIT F, define the outside limits of the areas to be mined, this is where the slopes into the ponds will begin. Not only will the pond boundaries be irregular but the below-water-slopes will be no steeper that 3:1 within the, 5 feet above to 10 feet below area around the pond. Shallower slopes may be created in conjunction with the land owners wishes as an area is reclaimed. These 11