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MINING PLAN <br />These areas will be shown on the various annual report maps (See Exhibit E-2) and described in <br />reports as "Added Value Reclamation." <br />Unlike permit acreage, affected land acreage will be defined by actual mapped area. Affected <br />land acreage cannot actually exceed the permit acreage. For that to occur, all land in the permit azea <br />would need to be affected and that azea would also need to be greater than the described acreage of the <br />permit. Because of the nature of the mining operation, only portions of the permit area will be affected <br />and it is already known that not all of the permit area contains mineable sand. Therefore, affected <br />acreage can never exceed permit acreage. <br />The affected land boundary is defined on the maps and includes all land that could potentially <br />be affected in the course of the operation. This boundary includes all land in the permit exclusive of <br />anticipated setbacks or otherwise restricted operational areas. However, not all potentially affected <br />land (as defined by the boundary) is necessarily included in the bonding or even contains mineable <br />sand. The mining plan maps also show an estimated boundary of good sand. This provides a <br />somewhat better estimate of where actual mining may occur. Nevertheless, as discovered in the <br />exploration, some of the land contained in the estimated boundary of good sand does not actually <br />contain good sand, so this boundary defines the azea where good sand most probably occurs. Please <br />refer to the description of the deposit in an earlier section of this exhibit for a more detailed <br />explanation of what was found in the exploration work. <br />The mining plan maps show a 500 foot buffer around the three nearby bomb target areas. <br />These azeas are excluded from mining until such time as they are cleared of ordnance or it is <br />considered safe to mine in those areas. <br />Bonding Boundaries: An additional boundary and acreage definition is used in this permit. <br />This boundary will probably change occasionally as needs change. This boundary is the land included <br />in the bonding and will be referred to as a Bonded Land Boundary. Bylaw, at the minimum, all <br />actually disturbed ]and created by the mining operation must be included in the bond so the State is <br />always protected. However, due to the nature of the deposit and the pattern of operation in the mining, <br />the land to be affected in the future cannot be precisely defined. The intermittent nature of the deposit <br />requires that mining occur in variously sized pits. (Please see the previous section in this exhibit for a <br />discussion of the nature of the deposit.) The extent and form of the deposit is only partially known. To <br />more precisely define the deposit during exploration it would have been necessary to disturb vastly <br />more land, which some people might have considered mining, except that nothing would have been <br />removed. <br />To avoid bonding a vast area and put up an extraordinarily large bond, a stepped bonding <br />approach is used. In this approach, as additional land is required, bond increases will be requested on <br />an as needed basis. In general, these requests will include land required to cover at least six months of <br />mining and usually an amount equal to what is required for a year or so of mining. These increases <br />Coal Creek Sand Resource Amendment 3 (2005) - M-1988-044 Exhibit D Page 12 <br />