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EXHIBIT E -RECLAMATION PLAN <br />The reclamation plan for the Teny Tunnel, Mayflower Mill and Tailings Ponds and Lake <br />Emma/Sunnyside Basin aze not affected by this Amendment submittal. This submittal <br />reflects proposed changes to the American Tunnel reclamation plan. <br />American Tunnel Facilities <br />The current reclamation plan carries a PMLU of rangeland for all of the permit area <br />except the quonset building and the access roads in the vicinity of that building which <br />carries a PMLU of industrial. The plan anticipates the removal of the structures other <br />than the quonset and access roads, permanently closing the American Tunnel portal to <br />access, contouring and grading the area and planting with the Mountain Mix approved in <br />the reclamation plan for this azea. <br />The verbal reclamation plan for the settling ponds near the quonset building is in conflict <br />with the reclamation plan map. The verbal reclamation plan is to remove the settling <br />ponds through contouring and planting with the Mountain Mix although the reclamation <br />plan map does not show their removal. <br />Based on the attached request by the new owner of the water treatment facility (Gold <br />King) and to reflect the long term plan for the azea as anoff--site water treatment facility <br />permitted by WQCD, Sunnyside proposes that the PMLU and reclamation plan be <br />changed to the following. <br />The American Tunnel water treatment facility will become anoff-site water treatment <br />facility permitted by WQCD after it is deeded to Gold King. Sunnyside will permanently <br />close, to access, the American Tunnel portal. Seepage, if any, from the closed American <br />Tunnel portal will be diverted to the water treatment plant for treatment with any other <br />water being treated under the CDPS permit with WQCD per the Gold King-Sunnyside <br />agreement. The other buildings will be converted to non-mining uses such as offices, <br />shops and storage. The entire American Tunnel permit area will carry a PMLU of <br />industrial. <br />E-1 <br />