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(i) The various staezs or phases of the operation will be dictated b}• market demand. This mine will not be a phased operation, but ..ill be based on a floatine bond of 3~ acres affected at any one timz. The present excavated aria will be expanded to the east boundary Izaving a 50-fr buffer alone the east permit bottndary~ and thin expand south to within 50 ft of the south boundary' to a setback of 50 feet for a buffer zone. Backsloping will be done while mining at 3H:1 V, which will eliminate the need to backfill the side walls of the pit. As mining progresses, reclamation will follow. Afrer an area is mined, the backsloping and contouring of the side walls and pit floor will be done, and topsoil spread for seedbed preparation, and as weather permits, planting will be done. All of the reclamation will be accomplished in a timely manner in order to establish the vegetation, and allow the operator/applicant to open more of the pit area for extraction, and maintain the 35-acre affected area. (ii) It is estimated that the size of the excavated area will be between I S and 20 acres at any given time, and that the remaining 15 areas will be devoted to product stockpile, topsoil stockpile, and all the related processing equipment, which will include portable crushing and screening plant, hot mix plant, and concrete plants. This will account for the 35-acre floating bond. (iii) Sequencing the events of the mining operation are as the market demands, and it is not feasible to predict with any accuracy at this time, however, as stated above the plan is well thought out and will be done in a manner to facilitate reclamation. The life ofthis mine will be over 20 yeazs. (~ The Mining Plan Map, along with the Vegetation and Soils Map will show in more detail the topography and the gravel deposits. However, the nature ofthis deposit is a very gravelly sand material used for construction aggregates, such as road base, asphalt, concrete, and structural fill materials as the main products. The overburden is about 5 ft. in depth, and the gravel deposit is a mining of 20 fr. deep, to a shale bedrock. Overburden will either be used in the product mix or used for backfilling the pit. There are no secondary commodities to be mined or extracted on this site. (g) As stated above, sand and gravel are the main commodities to be mined at the Pino Pit, and there are no other commodities to be mined. (h) All products for this mine site will be used for construction materials as defined by the DMG, as follows: "Constniction Materials" means rock, clay, silt, sand, gravel, limestone, dimension stone, marble or shale extracted for use in the production ofnon-metallic construction products.