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<br />Contrlbuton CMLRB I12 PernJt Appllcvtion <br />Agile Stone Syflema, Inc. <br />be a good plant growth medium and may erode due to lack of vegetative cover. <br />Please explain how you intend to overcome these problems. <br />Topsoil taken from the gravel bar will have large cobbles and boulders <br />removed before placing it in the topsoil stockpile. There will no mixing of <br />fines from plant operations and topsoil unless the experimental program to <br />test such admiatures proves successful. If successful, the current plan is to <br />only use such admiatures in the quarry area to increase wildlife habitat <br />during final reclamation. <br />10. Your section 1,7 states that "For future reclamation by the operator, landowner or <br />another party an appropriate amount of topsoil will be left in a noticeable, shaped, <br />and seeded stockpile within 50 feet of the mineral stockpiles remaining after final <br />reclamation." Pease explain this statement. There should be no mineral <br />stockpiles or topsoil stockpiles left after final reclamation. <br />See Final Reclamation Map and Exhibit E. There will no mineral stockpiles <br />or topsoil stockpiles left after final reclamation. <br />11. Section 2.3 of your post mining reclamation activities states that "Overburden will <br />be placed to create apost-mining topography that is self-draining and which <br />blends into adjacent undisturbed lands. It is assumed that you are referring to the <br />gravel pit azeas. Please provide an estimate of the amount of overburden to be <br />backfilled into the mined out gravel pits. The Division recommends that if you <br />have excess overburden materials (not needed to create appropriate grades), that <br />you consider using that material with other materials and amendments to reclaim <br />quarry benches. <br />There is no overburden. Therefore, there is no discussion of the uses of <br />overburden. <br />12. Your proposed permanent seed mix does not include a legume; however, your - <br />section 2.6 states that legume seed will be inoculated with the correct rhizobium <br />prior to shipping. Please discuss this discrepancy. It would be an improvement to <br />your seed mix if you were to add an appropriate legume. You might consider <br />contacting the local Natural Resource Conservation Service office for a <br />recommendation. <br />Legumes include alfalfa, purple prairie clover and yellow sweetclover. The <br />seed miztures in ezhibit E include these legumes. <br />16 <br />