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<br />INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />• The Piceance Pit is to be a small wet sand and gravel operation to mine no more than 69,500 tons <br />per year on a total permit area of 9.93 acres. The area is a flat meadow immediately south of the <br />White River and west of the junction of the White River with Piceance Creek in Rio Blanco County, <br />Colorado. The gravel is approximately 16 feet thick below a layer of topsoil of 2'-4' thickness. The <br />current land use is irrigated hay but the post-mining use be part wetland and lake for wildlife habitat <br />and part of the land will be restored to irrigated hayland. This area has been selected because good <br />quality gravel reserves along [he western part of the White River valley are not very common and <br />this location is also strategic to supply the large surge in new gas drilling in westem Rio Blanco <br />County. <br />The Piceance Pit permit land is on a private parcel owned by Box Elder Holding Company who has <br />leased the land and water rights to United Companies for [he sand and gravel mining. <br />Final reclamation will also be done promptly after mining is completed. United will work with the <br />• County, the landowner, CDMG and the CDOH office in Meeker to make the restored land the best <br />possible for its intended use. <br />Since the information required by Rio Blanco County and the Colorado Division of Minerals and <br />Geology overlap in many cases, this single document has been produced for both parties. <br /> <br />Piceance Pi[ 7/01 <br />