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Section 776.11 (b) Continued. <br />• Except ae provided below, if existing roads or trails are disturbed <br />by the exploration activities, they will be bladed and returned to <br />a condition equal to or better than their condition prior to the <br />commencement of the exploration activities. New or additional <br />roads will be constructed only immediately prior to the drilling <br />operations. At the conclusion of the exploration activity and <br />except as provided below, new or additional roads will be bladed <br />and reseeded. All roads will have water bare and/or culverts <br />installed, if necessary, to prevent excessive erosion. <br />Fire protection will be maintained by keeping all trash and debris <br />from accumulating. Adequate fire extinguishers will be maintained <br />and available at each drilling site. <br />Except as provided below, the drilling sites, at the conclusion of <br />exploration activity, will be cleaned of trash and debris, leveled, <br />• retopsoiled, scarified and reseeded to prevent soil erosion. Upon <br />completion of the necessary surface preparation, the affected areas <br />will be seeded according to the reclamation plan in Section 780.11. <br />The seeding of rehabilitated drill sites and access-road locations <br />will be accomplished in the first favorable seeding season upon <br />completion--during the fall or early spring. The reestablishment <br />of vegetation on drill hole sites and abandoned roads, after <br />exploration activities are concluded, is the planned method to <br />prevent possible soil erosion. <br />Most exploration drilling will be conducted immediately ahead of <br />the surface mining activities described elsewhere in this appli- <br />cation. Where the drill site will be mined through shortly after <br />the conclusion of drilling, reclamation will be accomplished, not <br />as described in this Section, but rather in accordance with the <br />reclamation plan described in Section 780.18. <br />• Because air is the anticipated drilling medium, contamination of <br />water-producing areas, such as streams, springs, stockponds and <br />776-3 <br />