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<br />EXECUTIVE SUr41dARY <br />A soil survey was conducted on the Western Fuels-Utah, Inc. Deserado permit area <br />during the summer and fall of 1980. The total area surveyed was about 5,500 acres. <br />Soils ware surveyed, mapped, analyzed and evaluated in accordance with sta g <br />and federal guidelines and the National Cooperative Soil Survey standards. <br />fhirty-two map units were delineated on the survey area. Approximately 15 backhoe <br />pits were dug during field observations. Typical profiles ware described and <br />soil samples were obtained from these pits. Upon receipt of laboratory data, <br />the soils were evaluated and placed in four classes. Lhe purpose was to classify <br />the soils by suitability and depth. <br />• <br />iiost of the surface and subsurface soil horizons rated fair to good as a source <br />of topsoil material. Within the area to ba stripped of topsoil, =sti.mates snow <br />that when all suitable topsoil material is stripped there will be enough material <br />to replace a layer of about 4 to 24 inches in average thickness over the affected <br />areas. This soil depth range reflects existing differential distribution of depths <br />with shallowest replacement depths occurring along transportation corridors on <br />ridgetops. <br />• <br />