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<br />these terraces paralleling the ridge line, although the extent of high quality Flagstone is uncertain <br />and all 10 terraces may not be required. Terracing will not extend down slope past the heads of <br />the rock slides. Access to the ridge top for this part of the operation will be from an existing road <br />that angles up the east side of the ridge. Flagstone removed from a terrace will be loaded into a <br />haul truck with the 6ont end loader and taken down the existing road to the staging area for <br />sorting onto pallets for transport. Terracing will be completed in 3 phases. The I st phase will <br />include terracing the area above the rock slides which were opened up under the t 10 permit. The <br />phase I area will be approximately 50 acres. Rock removal will continue there until all terracing <br />is completed and all desirable rock which can be easily removed is taken. Then the terraces will <br />be reclaimed as follows. Rock left on each terrace after mining is completed will be graded up <br />against the headwall to provide an energy dissipator for runoff If the area had soil prior to rock <br />removal, that soil will be spread over the remaining terrace area and reseeded. That portion of <br />the area which had no soil covet prior to mining will be left as is at the end of mining. Then <br />mining will commence on the second phase of the operation to the south of the first phase. The <br />phase II area will encompass approximately 48 awes and mining will be conducted in the same <br />manner as phase I. The third phase area will be north of the 1st phase area and will encompass <br />the remaining 27.5 acres of the proposed permit area. Similar methods of mining and <br />reclamation will be employed. <br />The only other surface disturbances will be improvements to existing roads and extension of the <br />new road along the base of the slides. There has already been approximately 500 R of new road <br />constructed as part of the 110 operation and this road will continue to be used for the ] 12 <br />operation. The road will be extended to reach the bases of other slides south of the existing <br />operation so that they can be mined during the Ist and 2nd phases of tenacing. The road will be <br />extended to the base of a slide to the north during the 3rd phase. This road will be reclaimed <br />after rock removal from the slides is complete. <br />The "new" staging area is approximately 4.5 acres and the ranch owner has requested that the <br />area remain as is after mining operations are completed. He has other plans for the area and does <br />12 <br />