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74 <br />• 1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />j 14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />. 24 <br />25 <br />clarify any and all points. <br />And Steve's comments, I thought he <br />did an excellent job. Their staff has done a lot of <br />work on this, and I appreciate the time and effort <br />that the State of Colorado has put into thus. <br />And some of the things that I would <br />like to comment on briefly are the east pit does <br />never extend below the creek level, and it's the <br />first pit -- we backfilled that pit completely. We <br />tried to put every ounce of material back into that <br />as we can from the stripping from the west pit. <br />The east pit is reclaimed early on <br />along with that most easterly waste dump. Those <br />areas will be reclaimed early on. <br />As we start mining -- we'll mine the <br />east pit out first. We start migrating into the <br />west pit. <br />Once the east pit is completely mined <br />lout, then we start backfilling the east pit in its <br />entirety. We want to fill it as soon as we can <br />because that's our closest haul. That makes us the <br />most money. It saves us the most money. <br />The west pit mines to 180-foot depth <br />below the surface so in postmining configuration, the <br />east pit is completely backfilled and the 8420 is the <br />