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The West Pit area currently has five ponds and a building that houses the water <br />treatment facility. Under this permit amendment, all ponds and the building will <br />remain for purposes of providing flexibility in continued water management (in the <br />case of the ponds) and as a combined workshop/office building for site personnel. <br />E.3 Revised Tailings Disposal Area Reclamation Plan <br />The 1989 Permit Amendment showed conceptualized preliminary reclamation plans <br />for the tailings surface. During development of the TDA, drainages on the east and <br />south were diverted to a channel that skirts the southern boundary of the TDA. Upon <br />final reclamation, the plan called for breaching of the diversion channel at each of the <br />tributaries and routing of tributary flow across the reclaimed TDA surface with <br />subsequent discharge to a spillway on the northwest corner of the tailings <br />embankment (Drawing 1 Tailings Impoundment Reclamation Plan; AM-O1). BMRI <br />proposes to leave the diversion ditch on the east and south in place and continue to <br />route upland flow in [he existing diversion channel as part of the final reclamation for <br />the TDA. In order to prevent accumulation of precipitation on the reclaimed TDA <br />surface, additional grading will be completed to route water to the spillway channel <br />constructed along the northwest perimeter of the TDA. <br />E.4 Assumptions <br />Remaining reclamation items in the Tailings Disposal Area include: <br />• Completing reclamation of the tailings surface, <br />• Constructing a spillway in the northwest corner of Tailings Disposal Area, <br />and <br />• Reclaiming the Collection Pond. <br />Recent (2003) survey measurements of the Tailings Disposal Area indicate that 22.6 <br />acres of the tailings surface remains to be reclaimed. In order to achieve a tailings <br />surface that does not impound water, the revised Tailings Disposal Area reclamation <br />plan includes construction of a spillway near the right abutment of the tailings dam. <br />Battle Mountain Resources, Inc. 11 Telesto Solutions, Inc. <br />P:Nmjecu1212-Newmont(SaN.uis)\Smdmis\Penni~Amendment- West Pit Managemem\V4 Repon&PDPS\PermitAmendment_v6.da October 2006 <br />