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Exhibit E - Rec amation Plan <br /> cannot be fully determined or provided for at this time,the trend toward residential, commercial <br /> and industrial development is already evidencing itself on surrounding lands. <br /> What ever long-term development occurs at the location, and on surrounding lands, resource <br /> recovery and attending reclamation at this location will tend to direct human densities away from <br /> St. Vrain Creek. The reduced densities will produce direct and indirect long term wildlife benefits <br /> and diverse multiple end-use potentials involving inherent wetland development, water resources <br /> development,water fowl improvement, and other desirable effects. The long term worth of this <br /> effect will serve to increase the value of the location,the increasingly urbanized mix of the <br /> surrounding lands, and the Town of Firestone's trail system that bisects the location over the <br /> former Union Pacific RailRoad bed. <br /> The final acreage of land remaining for development,to surface acres of resulting ponds, is <br /> illustrated on the following Exhibit F-Reclamation Plan Map. Exhibit D-Mining Plan,details the <br /> manner and method of earth moving and post resource recovery land form establishment. The size <br /> of the resulting basins is a function of area geology and available resource relative to man-made <br /> obstructions, including other regulations, that serve to prohibit a greater linkage. <br /> b) A comparison of the proposed post-mining land use to other land uses in the vicinity and to <br /> adopted state and local land use plans and programs. In those instances where the post-mining <br /> land use is for industrial, residential, or commercial purposes and such use is not reasonably <br /> assured a plan for revegetation shall be submitted. Appropriate evidence supporting such <br /> reasonable assurance shall be submitted; <br /> Uses: Surrounding and location lands are predominantly irrigated croplands, however,diverse <br /> residential,commercial and industrial uses are increasing along lands surrounding the location. <br /> For example, a commercial log mill is located immediately North of the location. The Town of <br /> Mead has annexed land, and built a subdivision approximately 1.5±miles due West of the <br /> location. Other residences are approximately one quarter mile away in any direction. Highway 66 <br /> is becoming a major route between the towns of Loveland, Platteville, and surrounding <br /> communities, and links the increasingly congested transportation corridors of U.S. Highway 85 <br /> and Interstate 25. <br /> Table E-1: Revegetation Seed Mixture,combines an elegant mingling of native grasses of diverse <br /> height, form, color and function,to assure that the reclaimed site can provide for a multiple-use <br /> benefit. Should post resource recovery land development be deferred, or even negated, all affected <br /> land remaining above the anticipated final water level of the resulting ponds will be stabilized with <br /> a diverse and durable cover of predominantly native grasses. This is compatible with, and an <br /> improvement over, adjacent pasture lands located in the St. Vrain Creek flood plain, and area <br /> monocultures of bluegrass and cropped land. Combined with the creation of waterfowl habitat, the <br /> baseline reclamation plan provided for under this submittal will provide less fragmenting of the <br /> area ecology than what may otherwise transpire. As such,the operation will result in immediate <br /> and prolonged positive impacts to the area. <br /> c) A description of how the Reclamation Plan will be implemented to meet each applicable <br /> requirement of Section 3.1; <br /> BEGIN 3.1 <br /> 3 <br /> EXHIBIT E- Reclamation Plan <br /> Colorado Division of Mineral s & Geology Regular Impact [1121 Construction Material Permit <br /> Sand Land, Inc. - Kurtz Resource Recovery & Development Project -January 1999 <br />