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<br />Rocky Ford East Pit/M77-560 <br />9/29/94 <br />page 3 <br />Valco commits to liability for damages to structures owned by <br />other parties, which are damaged as a result of wining or <br />reclamation activities. This liability exists until Valco is <br />released from this permit. <br />Floor levels of (new) bowl and lake <br />The floor of the bowl will be 10 feet above the water table. <br />The lake will be about 15 feet deep. Is the waiver table <br />widely variable? Are there significant seasonal. changes <br />during irrigation or wet seasons? operator must ensure that <br />the finished bowl depth will not be such that it: exposes <br />groundwater. <br />Post-mining features to remain <br />The access road will remain, but please specify which <br />portion(s). How will reclamation of any roads be conducted? <br />~' Please submit a reclamation map showing exactly what the site <br />will be like. <br />Reclamation of new and old portions of the permit <br />Please specify which parts of the areas to be added will be <br />tl~~, ,1~, reclaimed according to existing reclamation plans, snd which <br />1b ~ are subject to new plans. Please include all ;necessary <br />specifications for slopes, ripping, topsoil depths, seeding, <br />~~.°""~OkJ~ fertilizer, mulch, etc. If any of this is presently unknown, <br />~=~~ but to be based on future "best practices" of the Arkansas <br />a+~''~' Valley Revegetation Project research, that type of c~~mmitment <br />is acceptable. That will become a stipulation of approval, to <br />be completed before release. <br />Addition of Stage BL <br />As discussed, Stage BL should be included, due to it being the <br />area to receive the slurry solids. This is 7.22 acres in all. <br />-~ Will slurry material be so deep as to be exposed ab~~ve water <br />and change the pond shape? If so, please specify what <br />reclamation will occur there. Present pond banks i=here are <br />stable and vegetated. Besides culvert installation (and <br />.,removal) activity, will the banks be redisturbed? <br />Substitute water supply plans <br />You have submitted the plans, but they have not been approved <br />by the Division of Water Resources (DWR). Our approval of the <br />amendment can be made, contingent on your receiving DWR <br />approval. Until such approval, however, the permit: for the <br />amended area will not be issued. <br />