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Parldna Areas • After the employee parking azea (east of the mine office) and the min ready-line parking azea (west of the operations center) aze no longer required, any pazking islands will be removed and the associated scrap metal and concrete will be placed in the portal azea and buried. Similazly, paving material will be ripped, loaded, placed in the portal area, and buried. Since the paving material has been placed over the previously regraded and compacted surface, the previously designed and approved regrading plan for these aeeas will not be impacted, and reclamation of the areas will be completed with regrading, drainage reestablishment, topsoil replacement and reseeding. Waste Pie The sequence of development and reclamation of the waste pile will occur in accordance with the following steps. The waste pile, associated internal and external drainage control system, and hauhoad wIll be constructed in stages, and the activity pattern described herein will be repeated throughout construction of the pile. The steps provided below aze taken from the recommendation presented in Exhibit 26A and 26A-1. The drainage ditches around and the lower segment of the haul mad into the site have been constructed as per the design. Topsoil was salvaged from the entire footprint of the waste pile. The topsoil was placed in topsoil stockpiles SF-12, SF-13 and SF-14. Upon completion of these preliminary steps the tce drain was installed as per the design presented in Exhibit 26A. During construction of the waste pile the benches will be constructed as per the recommendations presented in Exhibit 26A and 26A-1. These recommendations include constructing the waste pile in compacted lifts not exceedurg 2 feet thick, during inclement weather, stockpiling material within the footprint of the waste pile. This allows for the material to drain and then be spread during favorable weather conditions. Exhibit 26A-1 modified Exhibit 26A by revising the construction sequence and removing the concept of a compacted zone fill. The entire lift will be constructed as one lift • without having to construct an A segment and then a B segment. This will increase the stability of the pIle by eliminating a potential slip-plane between the two segments. Also, it is planned to utilize the existing road into the refuse pile as long as possible to provide access to the southern portion of the waste pIle. The road corridor will eventually be filled with refuse material and it will be constructed as per the recommendation in Exhibit 26A-1, i.e. keying in the fill. A portion of the cover material to be placed over the waste material will be the native clays and subsoils located within the footprint of the pile. Currently, some of these materials have been excavated from the toe drain and from within the footprint of the waste pile. These materials aze stockpiled along the northeast toe of the refuse pile and adjacent to the old pit. As the waste pile progresses in size, additional cover material will be excavated from within its footprint. This material will either be placed dvectly on a finished face of the pile or stockpiled adjacent to or within the pile footprint. The cover material will be placed over the finished face and compacted, then topsoil will be redistributed and seeded with the pastureland seed mixture. The void left by excavating the cover material will be filled in with waste material, thus increasing the amount of material that can be placed in the pile without increasing its footprint. The replaced cover and topsoil will be maintained within 1 bench of each completed bench. This will provide a buffer between the active bench and previously completed benches. The outslope of the bench will be wvered during the first available period providing suitably dry conditions for placement. Cover material will be direct placed, to the extent possible, particularly during the initial and middle construction phase of the pile. As the pile nears completion, a stockpile of cover material may be required to provide sufficient material to complete the pile. Following the placement of cover material, topsoil will be placed over the cover material with direct placement again utilized to the extent possible. Topsoil from stockpile SF-6 will be used initially over completed portions of the waste pile outslope azea to facilitate the final alignment of the perimeter drainage channel in the vicinity of stockpile SF-6. While topsoil from stockpile SF- 6 is being utilized, additional topsoil that must be stripped will be stored in stockpile SF-12. During the final phases of the waste pIle construction, topsoil which could not be direct placed, will be redistributed on the pile fiom stockpile SF- 12. Equivalent yardage from the waste pile utilization of topsoil pile SF-6 will be substituted as necessary from • stockpile SF-12 to cover the office azea, road corridor, tipple azea, original waste rock dump, and batch weigh loadout facilities areas originally slated to be topsoiled from pile SF-6 (see Map 29). Topsoil will not be placed on any constructed waste pile drainage terrace until the adjacent outslope above the terrace is completed and cover MROS-202 2.05-100 10/11/OS