PERMFILE72141

• Permit No: M1981287
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

EXHIBIT A, B, E E H
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EXHIBIT A -Approximately 8.1 acres in the Northeast 1/4 Southeast 1/4 and
1.7 acres in the Southwest 1/4 Southeast 1/4 of Section 23,
Township 1 North, Range 63 West of the 6th P.M. Weld Lounty,
Colorado. (9.8 total acres)
EXHIBIT B - Mining Plan -.Mining is being and will be accomplished by surface
earthmoving machines, primarily with a rubber-tired front end
loader dumping into tractor-trailer dump trucks. Extraction
of the dry alluvial material will be less than 30,000 tons
per year.
Approximately two acres of the site may be considered as a
major disturbance area including both the excavated area and
the stockpile, while the remainder of the area is undisturbed
or at most only of minor disturbance at this time. The maximum
area anticipated to be disturbed on the site is estimated to be
six acres. Mined area is above any ground water, thereby being
a dry-pit operation.
Useable material is near the surface with little or no overburden,
is relatively fine-grained with 100% passing a 1/2" sieve, and is
less than eight feet thick. In the existing pit area, the meager
topsoil, less than 3" thick, has been, and will be, pushed aside
into small mounds by dozer or front end loader for future replace-
ment. The new pit area (north) has no topsoil or overburden.
Current operations are taking place in the southerly part of the
site in the existing pit. As mining occurs in the future, the
excavation will occur in the northernmost pit area with extraction
beginning at the north end and will proceed southerly. The south
or existing pit will remain open for occasional use should the
need arise.
EXHIBIT E - Reclamation Plan - All stockpiled material will be removed from
the site or incorporated into the excavated area as par[ of the
reclamation plan. As a large enough area is completed, the
excavated area will be regraded to slopes flatter than three
feet horizontal for each vertical foot. The finished area will
be sloped to correspond to the natural drainage pattern of the
surrounding area.
The stockpiled topsoil will be placed uniformly on the graded
surfaces at a thickness equal to the adjacent lands, in this case,
less than 3" on the south pit and none on the north pit, using
rubber-tired scrapers and blade graders. The finished surfaces
will be seeded with grasses compatible to the area during the
season, and at such rates as recommended by the Soil Conservation
Service and as detailed in Exhibit D. No trees or shrubs are
anticipated in the reclamation process.
The reclamation plan will result in a return of the area to the
equivalent use of the adjacent native low-productive pastureland.
EXHIBIT H - Reclamation Costs - Finishing Grading $1,800; Topsoiling $500;
Fertilizing $500; Seeding $500. Total estimated cost is $3,300.
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