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4. Mine Facilities and OQeration <br />The site will consist of a portable crushing and screening plant, portable stacker conveyors, portable <br />asphalt plant, portable concrete plant, truck scale and power poles. A permanent shop building and <br />storage building is also on site as shown on Map C-2. These two buildings preceded the Mountain <br />Gravel activity on the site. They may be used by the operator although there are no specific plans to <br />do so. In any case, the landowner desires that these buildings and the track scale remain after recla- <br />mation for commercial use of this area. There will be no fuel storage tanks or fuel farm on the site. <br />The equipment will be serviced on an as-needed basis from portable service truck making short visits <br />to the site. Other portable equipment such as loaders, dozers, trucks and excavators may be used in <br />the mining and processing operation. Upon reclamation, all portable equipment will be removed <br />from the site. <br />The river material will be mined either in the early spring or late fall. Processing could occur at any <br />time. Removal of the material offsite by truck may occur at any time. There will be no fence around <br />the operation, since it is well inside private property and there are no facilities on site. No problems <br />are expected with vandalism. <br />It is extremely unlikely that any toxic or acid-producing materials will be encountered during the <br />mining operation since the total depth of excavation in the River and the lake (see next section) is <br />shallow and tests down to this depth show that the material is alluvial in nature. However, in the <br />event that such materials are encountered, they will be covered with subsoil and topsoil from the <br />stockpiles to the same depths outlined in the reclamation plan and no more mining will occur in this <br />area. <br />The operator commits to clearly marking the permit boundary with stakes surveyed on site. There <br />will be extra mine facilities on site as a result of the mining of the lake in 2002. <br />The site will use all existing roads to haul the product to its final destination. It is planned that the <br />material will may used to re-surface existing roads, make concrete aggregate or provide new road <br />base for any new roads within an economic distance to the site. <br />Thomas Pit Z/02 11 <br />