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RECLAMATION PLAN EXHIBIT E <br />1. General Reclamation Plan <br />The entire disturbed area will be restored to its original uses as dry rangeland and wildlife habitat. <br />No slopes will be greater than 2.SH:1.OV. The vast majority of the disturbed area will be restored to <br />relatively flat grade. <br />The original Berry Pit disturbed area (29.8 acres) will be maintained during the mining of the new <br />lease area to the south of the existing pit. The 29.8 acres will be used for roads, processing, stock- <br />piles of product and soil/overburden stockpiles. In the new lease area, strips will be mined one at a <br />time as shown on Map C-2 so that reclamation of the site will be concurrent with the mining opera- <br />tion. In a worst case, three strips will be exposed at any given time. The mining will occur in the <br />middle strip while topsoil and overburden stripping will occur in the immediate strip to the east. Rec- <br />lamation will be taking place on the immediate strip to the west. Once Strip 9 is mined out, the vi- <br />sual berm will be mined out to complete the project. This visual berm is Strips 10, 11 and 12. There- <br />. fore, the maximum disturbed acreage [o reclaim at any given time is 29.8 acres (original area) + 10.5 <br />acres (three strips) + 2.79 ac (Strip 10) + 3.21 acres (Strip 11) + 2.25 acres (Strip 11) = 48.55 acres. <br />L~ <br />The final three strips are the visual berm left for the County and this would have to be reclaimed to <br />flat area if mining was permanently stopped in any of the earlier strips. <br />Since the average gravel thickness is approximately 20 feet, the overall terrain will be reduced by <br />this thickness for reclamation. Any final slopes on the terrain will be no steeper than 2.SH:1.OV. The <br />average overburden thickness is 6-12 feet. Soil Stripping depths average 20-24 inches on the flat ar- <br />eas and 0 to 6 inches on the slope areas. All of these materials will be replaced for reclamation, al- <br />though the overburden may not be placed to its original average thickness over the entire site. Some <br />areas may have more overburden and some may have less. In order to provide good plant rooting <br />depths of the entire site, United commits to placing a minimum of 12 inches of overburden (subsoil) <br />and 12 inches of topsoil in all areas of the new lease. The actual amounts stripped will be replaced to <br />the same thicknesses. <br />Berry Pit 3/02 14 <br />