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<br />_gp_ <br />MS. BALDRIGE: There is no discharge from the leak detection system. You <br />still have to go through the secondary liner foot-thick, clay layer. <br />Therefore, I'm not sure the appropriateness of their concern about 6,000 <br />gallons of cyanide solution discharging to the environment. <br />MR. MASSEY: That would just be recycled? <br />MS. BALDRIGE: The leak detection system allows collection and withdrawal <br />of any leakage to prevent migration through the secondary liner system. <br />MR. DANIELSbN: Steve, is this hundred gallons per acre per day in line <br />with the kind of figures that's in use at other heap leaches? <br />MR. RENNER: In fact, it is. I verified that not only in this state, but <br />in other states. <br />• MR. DANIELSON: That is that at other heap leaches, this well we don't <br />require them to identify the source of the leak at that level? <br />MR. RENNER: You know, I can't say that is -- I'm not sure for the <br />operations in this state. I have checked other states to see what people are <br />doing as far as a step to leak detection response. And this -- in some cases <br />is is more conservative or at the same level as people are requiring <br />throughout the west for heap leaches. <br />MS. WINTER: And your -- and your point was that any of the leakage is <br />applied back into the system, rather than into -- than escaping? <br />MS. BALDRIGE: That's correct, that's correct. Just to point something <br />out to you. This response plan was developed in accordance with an EPA <br />document on hazardous waste liners and expected leakage through hazardous <br />waste liners. So this is a response plan that's used in a number of different <br />• applications. <br />