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<br />(RECLAMATION PLAN Continued) <br />-2- <br />Seeding will be per Soil Conservation Service recommen- <br />dations (see attached sheet), and will include a mixture of <br />Western Wheatqrass, Crested Wheatgrass, Yellow Sweetclover, <br />and Indian Riceqrass. <br />Fertilization and seeding may be repeated as necessary <br />to obtain the desired results. <br />The reclaimed quarry area should pose no environmental <br />problem as no water impoundment will be left and the site <br />will not interfere with the movement of wildlife. <br />RECLAMATION PLAN (7-ddendus 17 Bay 1977) <br />Approximately eighty-six hundredths of an aor• of the <br />sixteen and oa•-fifth affected acres will be revegetated. <br />This includes the eleven acres of mining and approximately <br />three acres of is th• northern perimeter area used for <br />stockpiling topsoil. and reject material. The remaining <br />~~undiaturbed~~ four and two-tenths acres in the permit area <br />that will not be revegetated consist of existing peripheral <br />areas, cliffs, and walls, and benches created by the mining <br />operation. The benches will be from five to ten foot <br />width, located at ten to twenty foot elevation increments, <br />and created as material is removed along the north and east <br />pit walls. The walls will be left an approximate 1/2:1 <br />slope and like the benches will not be revegetated. <br />Because of the type of mining, no reclamation can begin <br />until mining ceases. The entire quarrying area (11.6 ao.) <br />has been or will be used for either mining, stockpiling or <br />processing until operations cease. <br />Therefore, reclamation is not expected to begin before <br />the year 2012. <br />