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RECLAMATION PLAN <br />For the Pit Slopes the following new seed mix will be used: <br />Daniels Sand Pit #2 -Pit Slope Mix - 2004 Modification of 1992 mix <br />Species Pounds Pure Live Seed/Acre <br />Thickspike Wheatgrass 5.0 <br />Sand Bluestem 6.0 <br />Sand Lovegrass 0.5 <br />Pubescent Wheatgrass 5.0 <br />Cicer Milkvetch (Oxley variety) 4.0 <br />TOTAL PLS/ACRE = 20.5 <br />NOTE: Broadcast seeding is generally required for the pit slopes due to steepness. The rates in <br />this seed mixture assumes the seed will be broadcast. For broadcast seeding, loosen the soil as much <br />as possible prior to seeding. Break all azeas that show any degree of crosting. After seeding, drag the <br />slope with a screen or chain drag. It is very important to bury the seed on a slope to a depth of about 1 <br />inch. In a very sandy soil that can be difficult and laborious to accomplish. <br />If the slope can be traversed by equipment, drill seeding often produces higher success rates. <br />No additional treatment is needed if the seed drill has discs in good condition that dig well into the <br />sand. For drilling in sandy soils, seeding should be %z to 1 inch. Sandy soils tend to be extremely <br />droughty if the seed is not planted deeply it often dies or fails to germinate due to a lack of moisture. <br />The only other changes in the current reclamation plan aze the modifications to the final <br />topography along the south side of the current permit azea east of Academy Boulevard. These were <br />done to accommodate the inclusion of the water treatment facilities. Those facilities were previously <br />excluded from the affected land by a technical revision, but, at that time, no changes in the <br />reclamation topography were built into the revision. Now that it is known what effect the remediation <br />program has on the operation those changes are made. <br />Also, in the current permit the reclamation topography uses a variable and sometimes <br />confusing reclamation contour sequence. This has been changed to include all contours using a five <br />foot contour interval. <br />Daniels Sand Pit #2 -Little Johnson Amendment - M-~s~3-oo~ Exhibit E Page 8 <br />