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1 <br />' EXHIBIT E <br />RECLAMATION PLAN AND TIMETABLE <br />Reclamation Plan. {Vhen all mining stages and reclamation <br />phases are complete in about 2060, it is planned that the <br />' area will have been reclaimed as rangeland. <br />' The lease agreement between the operator and the property <br /> owners stipulates maximum recovery of sand and gravel and <br /> requires that the land be returned to a condition after min- <br /> ing so as to be useful as rangeland. <br />' As each mining stage is completed, the stored overburden <br />' and soils will be returned to that stage area, after which <br /> grading and reshaping with 3 to 1 slopes on the outer edges <br />' will be accomplished. Existing topsoil will be returned to <br /> that mined area and spread uniformly. Next, the soil will <br />' be loosened, fertilized, mulched and seeded. The 3 to 1 <br /> bank slopes on the north will have a vertical component of <br />' <br /> about twenty feet. Slopes on the west will be approximately <br />' thirty feet and on the south approximately thirty feet to <br /> zero. The eastern side of the pit will feather to zero with <br /> no perceptible slopes. The Stage I area, which is separated <br /> from the main pit area, will have 3 to 1 slopes on the south <br />' <br /> side and no perceptible slopes in the other three directions. <br />' Stage I is simply a knoll from which the gravel has been <br />scalped off the top. <br />' The reclamation plan has been designed to cover 17 phases, <br />each having a corresponding mining stage. Mining stages of <br />five years duration will be followed by five-year reclamation <br />II <br />I 9 <br />