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contains topsoil information only through the first permit term, Table 21-2A contain historic projections <br />11999-2003). While Table 21-2B contains current future projections. Suitable topsoil will be salvaged. • <br />from all significant disturbance areas including sediment ponds (includes pond area, embankment, - <br />borrow areas, and spillway for sites located down drainage of mining activitiesl, haul roads, access <br />roads, mining area (includes box cut spoil and highwall reduction area, spoil and waste stockpile areas, <br />office and shop area, explosive storage area, and diversion ditchesl. Topsoil will be removed from all <br />cut and fill slopes. No topsoil will be salvaged from [he light use roads utilized for environmental <br />monitoring or power line corridors, except where cut and fills are required. Prior to topsoil removal, <br />trees and shrubs which are too large for direct incorporation into the topsoil are mechanically <br />chipped/mulched and incorporated with the topsoil during salvages to help increase soil organic matter <br />levels or scraped away and combined with the overburden. Occasionally, the vegetation will be <br />transported to final graded slopes and placed in brush piles throughout the reclamation. The remaining <br />vegetation will be incorporated into the topsoil to help increase soil organic matter levels. To prevent <br />unnecessary contamination and loss due to sloughing, topsoil shall be salvaged a minimum of 5 to 15 <br />feet from the edge of a road, end of a pit, embankment, ditch, cut slope, and toe of fill. Topsoil shall <br />also be salvaged a minimum of 100 feet in advance of the active pit to protect the soil resource from <br />being contaminated during blasting, benching, drilling, and other mining activities. Topsoil will be <br />salvaged about 400 to 500 feet in advance of the active pit during late summer and early fall to provide <br />an adequate buffer during the winter months, <br />Topsoil will be removed by using self-loading scrapers, push scrapers, or other rubber tired equipment. • <br />A dozer or road grader will also be used when needed to assist scraper loading, to facilitate maximum <br />topsoil recovery, and to help build and shape topsoil stockpiles. Where topsoil exists on a steep slope <br />and where there is enough room for scrapers to maneuver at the bottom of that slope, topsoil will be <br />removed by being pushed downhill with a dozer, picked up with scrapers, then stockpiled or transferred <br />directly to final graded areas. In other steep slope situations, topsoil removed by dozers will be pushed <br />outside of the topsoil disturbance area and stored in approved stockpiles at the bottom of that slope. <br />Lastly, in final pit highwall reduction areas, first pit boxcut spoil, along haul roads, and at pond <br />construction sites, topsoil removed by dozers will be pushed outside the topsoil disturbance area and <br />stored temporarily (less than one year) in windrows. Windrows will be located such that no mining <br />activities will disturb them and be marked with topsoil signs to further distinguish them. Berms will <br />also be constructed to protect the windrow from erosion and the potential loss of soil. This topsoil will <br />either be respread over adjacent final graded slopes or will be transported to an approved stockpile site. <br />A one-lift soil handling operation will be used for all soil map units within the projected disturbance <br />area. This method of topsoil removal is desirable because the soils are either shallow (Splitrol, <br />moderately deep IWinevadal, or deep ICoutisl, and have minimal subsoil profile development (thick, <br />organic-rich "A" horizons directly overlie sandstone bedrockl, landscape slopes are steep to excessive <br />(equipment mobility and efficiency is severely restrictedl, mixing will provide a more erosion resistant • <br />and <br />PR-05 24 Revised 05/05 <br />