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7. The County proposes to amend the revegetation plan in the original permit so <br />that the County is not required to seed or plant any grasses or trees. The County <br />proposes to transplant willows or other trees or shrubs on the outside of the <br />catchment trench berm as seedlings become available from other road work. The <br />seeding and planting of seedlings might work but due to the lack of natural soils <br />other than barren rock in this area, any grass seeding would not be affective in <br />this area. The planting of any trees at on the affected slope itself or at the toe of <br />the slope would be a waste of time and effort due to the steepness of the slope, <br />the lack of any soil on the slope and the regular occurrence of avalanches in the <br />winter and mudslides and rockslides that do happen every year in this area. <br />The county will transplant some native trees and willows outside of the permit <br />area along the boundary of the new ATV staging area. The county will transplant <br />about a dozen trees. This will be done because in the original permit the county <br />said it would replace any trees that where affected by the gravel operations. But <br />due to the current and future operations in this area the transplanting of trees will <br />have to be done outside of the original permit area. The new ATV staging area is <br />only 200' from the permit area. <br />8. The total estimated cost for the work to be completed on the revised <br />reclamation plan to San Juan County would be $20,000.00. The estimated cost <br />for the revised reclamation plan to San Juan County would be for all work done <br />and including: equipment rentals; engineering study; moving and placing of the <br />backfill materials; grading and sloping of all the back slopes; digging the <br />catchment trench and the grading and placement of the berm; transplanting trees <br />and shrubs ;and all administrative and legal costs etc. The slope stability by <br />Lambert's cost the county $7,000.00. <br />9. There is nothing that the County can do to mitigate or eliminate the scarping <br />and sloughing above the permitted area due to the steepness and all of the <br />natural and weather related events that effect this slope and surrounding <br />mountain side from mudslides that effect and close CR-25 at least twice a year <br />and winter and spring snow avalanches that run and cause some erosion and <br />slope damage. <br />Although the sgrping in the pit area has not come anywhere near County Road <br />25, and although work on County Road 25 is not actually part of the perrrtit <br />because it has to do with County roads rather than the mining reclamation, in <br />addition to widening the road as noted above, San Juan County plans to sign <br />CR-25 with the appropriate warning signs to warn the general public of the <br />possible danger that could occur when traveling this section of roadway and to <br />the possible closure and unexpected road damage to this road. San Juan County <br />will monitor and inspect and or check this area for possible danger and road <br />damage on a regular basis and will take appropriate actions to protect the pubic <br />from danger. The county will close this road if the scarping of sloughing from the <br />affected slope erosion starts to come close to the edge of CR-25. Alternatively, <br />