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It is anticipated that mining operations will continue far approximately 30 years. Reclamation work will be an ongoing process during this period. Due to the variable demand expe- rienced in the Pueblo area to date, an accurate timetable is impossible to develop. A supplemental reclamation plan was submitted 1/13/86 and was made a part of the original. Actual reclamation commitments added by the amendment include review with the SCS of the fi- nal seed mixture to provide food sources for wildlife, stocking of the ponds with fish, and a continuing commitment to ban hunting on the property. Most original commitments made as part of the original reclamation plan are in force except for planting tree seedlings. They are being eliminated due to water problems and suits, as well as the Colorado-Y,ansas litigation over the interstate compact admin- istration. That supplemental is modified to read as follows: The non-inundated portions of the disturbed pit area will be fertilized with forty (40) peunds per acre each of available elemental nitrogen (N1 and phosphoric acid (p205). Areas that will drain directly into water courses or impoundments will not be fertilized so as not to endanger livestock or wildlife. The area will be seeded with the following variet- ies and seeding rates: Drilled Seed Rate Species Variety (PLS/Acre) Western Wheatgrass Arriba 4,8 Sideoats Grama Vaughn or Niner 2.7 Alkali Sacaton 0.3 Sand Dropseed 0.1 Yellow Sweetclover 0.7 Fourwing Saltbush 0.5 The seeding mixture might vary depending on availability at the time of planting. In addition, 4,000 #/A of straw mulch will be spread and crimped into the soil on non-inundated areas disturbed within the pit. Sufficient distance will be maintained from mining operations to the bank of the river to maintain the present channel and prevent flooring of the pit. However, two hundred feet (200') is excessive and not economical. A buffer of a minimum of approximately fifty feet (50'I will be maintained.