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It is important to know the quantity and composition of overburden to determine proper <br />mitigation and environmental impacts. Additional restrictions and handling requirements <br />can come into play if the overburden is a different composition, if there are unusual <br />quantities, or if it is to be trucked or stored. I need to make the distinction that there is no <br />compositional difference between the mined product and the waste rock; we are not <br />removing overburden to reach the ore; it is not being stockpiled or trucked to any other <br />location; and that it is integrated with the ore we are mining. <br />Roads: <br />1. Please sped the dimensions and location of arty existing or proposed roads that <br />will be used for the mining operation (Rule 6.3.3(1)0J. Please describe the <br />dimensions of the existing logging roads (un-maintained, non-system Forest <br />Service rards), and "walk in "areas (semi-roads that will be used primarily for <br />accessing the mine sites), but not the Forest Service system roads. <br />The updated maps included as an attachment show the preexisting roads as previously <br />submitted; however, I have added the areas over which the track hoe wilt be walked to <br />access the differem excavation sites. These access points are color coded blue and <br />indexed on the map. I have also labeled the non-system roads as "A", "B", and "C" to <br />better address them in the following discussion. <br />The location of roads is indicated on the maps. The dimension varies as these are <br />primitive roads used over the years for logging, recreation (including rockhounding), <br />hunting, hiking, four-wheeling, and mining. Generally, they range from 10 feet to 12 feet <br />wide. They have all been used historically for mechanized equipment to access various <br />mining sites. All previously accessed sites, plus some new sites, aze served by these <br />roads. <br />These roads exhibit varying degrees of erosion and maintenance. Road A exhibits <br />erosion at its base and is currently closed to motor vehicles at its junction with F.S. Rd <br />752. Nevertheless, 4WD vehicles, predominantly ATVs continue to use this road. Road <br />B also has erosion near its juncture with F.S. Road 201 and where it crosses Site H <br />indicated on the map. Several waterbazs have been machine cut on Road B as recently as <br />20001 when it was previously maintained (presumably by the Forest Service). (I am <br />estimating the date.) Road B is heavily used; almost daily during the summer months and <br />during hunting season. Road C has been abandoned near its junction with F.S. Road ZO1 <br />and is overgrown in that area. It was used for many seasons to access a camp site which <br />was used by miners in the 60's near Site K. Road C is in excellent shape and exhibits <br />almost no erosion. <br />The length ofRoad A is 885 feet. Road B is 1,840 feet. About 1,400 feet of the 1,840 <br />feet is outside the dig sites and 440 are within the dig sites. Road C is 1,170 feet in <br />length. <br />