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MINING PLAN <br />2. New roadways will avoid crossing noxious weed infested land until that land has <br />been appropriately treated and a mostly weed free corridor established. <br />Thoroughly spraying the roadway corridor with Roundup®a week before road <br />construction should be sufficient to kill most of the weeds (and most everything else). <br />In the event the roadway needs to be constructed during the winter months when weed <br />control cannot be done, the weed control efforts must be implemented as soon as <br />growth begins in the following year. <br />Ordnance Checking on New Roadways: Within the area of the East Valley, new <br />roadways outside of mined areas or areas to be mined, will be checked by Schmidt <br />personnel for indications of ordnance. Although road construction will rarely involve <br />excavation of the land, the Land Board requires that this be done due to liability issues <br />and overall safe use of the land. The following procedures will be followed for these <br />roadways. <br />a. The operator shall scan the road corridor using appropriate equipment. All <br />locations that indicate possible ordnance will be mazked. GPS coordinates of <br />the location as well as any other data relevant to identifying the location and <br />estimated depth will be taken. <br />b. Either the road will be aligned so as to avoid those possible ordnance locations <br />OR the locations will be investigated and cleazed by the ordnance clean-up <br />personnel assigned to the Lowry Range prior to construction OR the ordnance <br />clean-up personnel will approve the road alignment if the ordnance indications <br />are determined to be non-hazardous for road construction. Ordnance clean-up <br />personnel shall include Shaw Environmental (current federal contractor) or <br />other persons designated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to remove <br />ordnance from this property. <br />c. In any event, all indications of possible buried ordnance will be identified as <br />described above and the appropriate personnel will be informed of possible <br />ordnance being present. <br />Discussion: These requirements only apply to lands in the East Valley area. This is the only <br />area where there is a high concern over possible buried ordnance. BT#7, an <br />aerial bombing range, is located just to the south of the East Valley and it is <br />very possible that bombs dropped in this area widely missed the target. Some of <br />those may not have exploded and may be buried in the ground at various <br />depths. Roads extending through mined areas or lands to be mined do not need <br />this check because they will be separately checked as part of the mining <br />Coal Creek Sand Resource Amendment 3 (2005) - M-1988-044 Exhibit D Page 21 <br />