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~wrBiT °o'• <br />Mining Plan <br />6.4.4 The Mining Plan for the Ula Pit is as follows (Please also see map): <br />This permit is for the expansion of the existing permitted Ula gravel Pit M-1991-083. <br />(a) The initial preparation of the surface before extraction of the sand and gravel will <br />consist of stripping the vegetation and topsoil and placing it in stockpiles for use later <br />during reclamation. Front-end loaders, scrapers, and motor graders may be <br />employed for this pfiase. <br />The next phase after removal of the vegetation and topsoil is the extraction of the <br />resource (sand and gravel), which will be accomplished with front-end loaders, <br />dozers, scrapers, backhoe excavators, draglines, or any surface mining type of <br />equipment that is economically feasible for this site. <br />This is an open pit surface mina, and mining and construction equipment design for <br />this task will be used for earthmoving and transporting both on site and trucking off <br />site. <br />(b) All earthmoving will be done with machinery designed for the job, eg. Dozer, front- <br />end loaders, scrapers, excavators, etc. <br />(c) No water diversions or impoundments are anticipated for this operation. <br />(d) The size of maximum disturbance will be approximately 15 acres at any one time, <br />and will consist of a combination of mining, processing, stockpiling, hot mix asphalt <br />plant and/or ready mix concrete plans, and reclamation. Total area of disturbance will <br />be approximately 36.9 acres of the permitted 40 acres. <br />(e) Mining w-I! be done on a continuing program every year as the demand warrants. <br />Therefore, an approximate timetable is that as project in the area need materials, <br />mining will occur. <br />(i) The various stages or phases of the operation will be dictated by market <br />demand. RcGamation will be completed within 5 years after mining is completed <br />(fi) It is estimated that the size of the excavated area will be between 5 and 10 <br />acres at any given time, and that approximately 5 acres will he devoted to product <br />stockpile, topsoil stockpile, and all the related processing equipment, which may <br />inGude portable crushing and screening plant, hot mix plant, and concrete plants. <br />(iii) Sequencing the events of the mining operation are as the market demands, <br />