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<br /> <br />1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY <br />' This Soil Conservation, Erosion and Sediment Control, Reclamation, and Revegetatioo Plan <br />(`The Plan") describes measures to be taken by American Soda, L.L.P. ("American Soda's and <br />its contractors to proud and restore areas of disturbance associated with mine development, <br />' operation and retirement. The Plan ensures that 1) surface disturbance will be minimized, 2) <br />erosion and sedimentation will be controlled, 3) topsoil will be salvaged and stockpiled, 4) <br />disturbed areas will be recontoured to approximau original topography, and 5) disturbed areas <br />will be revegetated and monitored to ensure adequau species and habit diversity. <br />The prescribed resource prouction procedures and practices focus on avoiding disturbance <br />whenever possible and limiting disturbance to the exunt practicable. These proccdtrres and <br />practices are included in planning and design, hydrologic protection, soil resource salvage and <br />reconstruction, and conumporaneous revegetation. <br />' Planning and Desi® -American Soda will manage mining operations to limit <br />environmental impacts resulting from its activities. This will primarily be accomplished by <br />rninimiziug disturbance associated witlt development to the maximum extent practicable. <br />Feld activities will be carefully planned and organized to ensure that this is accomplished. <br />t Feld quality assurance and control monitoring will be implemented to ensure plawmg and <br />organizing goals are met. To this end, drill pads will be carefully designed and laid out to <br />accommodau operations while limiting pad dimensions. Roads used to develop well pads <br />' and collection gallery pipelines will be carefully arranged to facilitate their development <br />while limiting dre linear feet of road required. The size and artangement of processing <br />facilities and supporting utilities will be carefully planned and organized. Environmental <br />treatment and control structures will be incorporaud into project design and development to <br />ensure that adequau, realistic environmental protection, mitigation and restoration are <br />achieved in a timely fashion during project development, operation and component closure. <br />Feld quality assurance and quality control monitoring will be implemented to ensure that <br />t planning and organizational goals are met <br />• Hvdrologic Protection -Paramount to minimizing off-siu impacts will be the handling, <br />' control and treatment of surface waur run-on and runoff. The placement of waur control <br />and treatment structures will be the first activity undertaken at the commencement of <br />planned disturbance. Waur control and treatment structures will generally be the last <br />' structures to be removed following successful establishment of permanent vegetation on <br />disturbed areas. American Soda will protect surface waur quality by making the <br />installation of hydrologic control and treatment structures a high priority during siu <br />' development. Hydrologic planning will include the diversion of concentrated run-on flows <br />around or safely through disturbed areas. Reconstructed channels or diversions will roue <br />wncentrated surface flows from disturbed areas through appropriau erosion and sediment <br />control structures and facilities. Such channels and diversions will be adequauly designed <br />' and stabilized to carry the flow volumes for which they are intended. <br />• Soil Resource Salvage and Reconstruction -Topsoil and soil resource surveys are available <br />' for the areas to be disturbed. The best available soil reconstruction maurials will be <br />salvaged during initial disturbance and either immediauly replaced on lands that are ready <br />for permanent revegetation operations or stockpiled for future use. In deurmining which <br />t maurials constinne the best soil growth mediums, the quality and quantity of topsoil and <br />subsoil, tfie requirements of the postmining vegetation community for the growth medium, <br />and the topography of the area to be reclaimed will be considered. Soils will be <br />' Amman Soda LLP. I-I <br />$Olr COn9efV8dnn, rJ0910n and Sediment <br />Conbol, Reclamation, and Revegepdon Plan <br />' October 28, 1999 <br />