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EXHIBIT E <br />Reclamation Plan <br />General Approach <br />The method of land reclamation has been planned and designed to provide the amenities for <br />future land use. The planned reclamation program will revegetate the site to be similaz to the <br />adjacent open space lands. Total acreage of the Amended Permit will be approximately 325.2 <br />acres; of this acreage, 301.7 acres will be subject to some degee of reshaping, leaving 23.5 <br />undisturbed acres. A total of 253 acres will be involved in the reclamation plan for the open pit, <br />of which approximately 100 acres will be benches on the highwalls, 55 acres will fomt the pit <br />bottom, 87 acres for the stockpile areas, and 11 acres for the overburden fill azea. <br />During the extraction process features of the highwalls (future land use backdrop) will be <br />established that will be similar to the surrounding topography. These backslopes or highwalls <br />will have a variety of slopes and configurations. The back slopes wil! have an average overall <br />slope of approximately 45 degrees (measured from the rim to the toe of the highwall). The <br />benches will have excess overburden soils placed on them to allow establishment of a vegetated <br />slope. The amount of fill or placement of soils on each bench will vary, but typically will be 35 <br />feet in height from the toe of the bench to the top of the face exposed from the removal of that <br />bench. The bottom width of the soils placed will be the full 35-foot width of each bench. Soil <br />exposures will be sloped downward and generally will be at the same 45-degree angle of repose <br />as the overall highwal] configuration. Benches will be developed on the face of the highwall <br />during the course of the mining operation. These benches may be spaced at random intervals <br />and so shaped as to preclude the formation of extended and continuous horizontal lines across <br />the face of the highwalls. Randomly spaced rock faces may be left or develop from some <br />settling of the fill in the backfilling of the benches. It is intended that the majority of the <br />highwall, slopes and benches have the appearance of the surrounding topography. Plans and <br />specifications for establishing the final slope of these benches and their highwalls are in general <br />terms to accommodate certain uncontrollable irregularities occurring during extraction of the <br />rock and the placement of the soil overburden. As the final slope and location of each bench is <br />established, revegetation will be implemented. <br />Careful attention will be given to finishing the floor of the quarry, which will be a terrace for <br />future land use. Shaping of the floor will provide the necessary gradation required for overall <br />drainage of the azea. Jackson Gulch traverses the floor of the quarry and drainage from this will <br />be reconstructed to flow across the quarry floor where it will be routed into sump that will be <br />pumped into the Magic Mountain Reservoir if required. <br />The accomplishment of this land reclamation method in conjunction with applicable reclamation <br />standards of the City of Golden, Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board, and the Agreement <br />with Jefferson County Open Space will establish a beneficial multiple sequential land use. <br />Specification A~regules <br />DMG 1!2 Permit AmenJmen! <br />-/0- <br />