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RIDER TO MINING PERMIT Permit Date: July 16, 1999 Permit No M-99-002 The following additional stipulations and conditions form an integal part of the foregoing permit: Stipulation No. Description The ambient ground water qualih~ data collected through unplementation of the Bound water characterization plan described in the permit application will be incorporated into the permit though a technical revision that will assure an opportunity for meaningful public participation in the process. Permit conditions protective of Bound water will also be established through the same technical revision process, which is described below. Until the permit is so revised to include permit conditions protective of Bound water, the Operator is precluded from injecting fluids under this pem>it for the purpose of solution mining. If the ambient Bound water quality information collected under the characterization plan proves to be inadequate to establish permit conditions protective of Bound water, the Board may require additional characterization of Bound water prior to allowing injection of fluids for solution mining. if the ambient Bound water quality information demonstrates that the existing and reasonable potential future uses of Bound water may not be protected by permit conditions under the mine plan described in the permit application, or in the permit as it may be revised, then the Board may bar the Operator from fwY.tter executing the mine plan and require reclamation of any disturbance that has occurred up to that point. The technical revision process to be emplo}'ed will occur through the following steps: • Provision of the Bound water data to the Division as it is accumulated rather than as a single submittal at the end of the data gathering period. The Division will disseminate the data to the parties to the pemtit apphcation process. This procedure will assure that interested parties have adequate opportunity to evaluate the data. • Once all of the required ambient ground water data has been accumulated, the Operator will apply for a technical revision to incorporate the data into the permit and to establish permit conditions protective of Bound water. The Operator will follow the public notice procedures of Rule 1.6.2 and Rule 1.6.3. Public comment on the technical revision will be in accordance with Rule 1.7. t and Rule 1.7.2. A Formal Public Hearing will be convened during the July 2000 meeting of the Board to consider the merits of the technical revision and to hear testimony from the parties and the public. Rthe technical revision is not reafi for a hearing in July 2000, the hearing date could be continued. If the hearing is to be continued, then the operator must notify the parties at least 4~ days prior to the hearing.