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Mining, or at leaat operations within the pit, will be active for the majority of the year. Any waste materials will be for the majority of the year. Any waste materials will be used to build up low areas to provide pads for stockpiles and possible use as building sites, should the area ever be de- veloped. No areas within the proposed pit limits can be conaidered to be wetlands, and, therefore, nc wetlands will be disturbed. [t is estimated that actual disturbance of any area due to mining operations will be limited to no more than 31.1 acres of active excavation and a total of no more than 30 acres of active disturbance for the plant site, stockpSle area, and roads. This amendment is to permit the total possible ag- gregate area to allow flexibility in both present and future operations. In the future, the applicant hopes to develop augmentation plans which will allow a larger area of extrac- tion. For the present, we are limited by what we anticipate cur current augmentation plan before the Water Court will al- low. When mining is complete, the roads will be reduced in size to not wider than 20 feet, which will be large enough to provide permanent access to the land. Mining at the site will probably continue for at least thirty years. This amendment removes the 76.31 acre batch plant site from the permit acreage since the plant now utilizes materials from several other sources besides this pit. It is passible, and indeed probable, that at some period in the future the plant will remain in operation after thia pit is depleted or use ceases. Therefore, the applicant no longer feele that inclusion of the plant site within the pit boundaries is applicable or appropriate. It is also posaible that an aa- phalt hot mix plant could be moved into this plant site from time-to-time. Asphalt could, and probably would, be imported from different sources in the area as mentioned above.