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~~~ CORER Summary of Technical Revision Cotter Corporation is the Lessee of the U.S. Department of Energy uranium reserve lease block C-SM-18 and holder of a current Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology mine reclamation permit No, M-1978-116 covering portions of land in sections 21, 22, 27, and 28, T.48N, R.17W., NMPM in Montrose, County, Colorado on Spring Creek Mesa. Furthermore, Cotter Corporation owns 14 patented mining claims adjoining the west side of the lease block. Permit No. M-1978-116 encompasses a total of 14.9 acres of the leased land, mostly in the S W'/a Section 22, permitted for mine site surface facilities: waste rock dump, ore storage, portal, buildings, roads, evaporation ponds, and ventilation bore holes. During past mining on the lease block, Cotter's surface disturbance consisted of only 8.71 acres at the SM-18 Mine portal area in SW'/< Section 22, and a ventilation hole in NW%< Section 27. Cotter's request for the Technical Revision to the above captioned permit is to delete 5.0 acres of the 6.19 undisturbed permitted acreage (mostly in the S''/z section 22 and N%z Section 27) and add 5.0 acres in the S W'/< of Section 27. This change is for surface facilities (mainly waste rock and temporary ore storage) near the Wright Mine portal and a possible future ventilation hole on the Cotter-owned patented claims and a ventilation hole on the D.O.E. uranium reserve land. This will allow Cotter a more efficient way to mine the reserves on the south part of the Lease Block than continued use (and waste dump expansion) of the SM-18 portal would. Since the use and type of disturbance of the land in this proposed acreage exchange is the same as the original permitted use, the reclamation plan and activities will remain essentially the same (or the new acreage. DW/tlm TR SM-18 Cotter Corporation -West Slope Operations Telephone (970) 864-7347 P.O. Box 700, 28151 DD Road, Nucla, CO 81424 USA Fax (970) 864-7287