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(See the two areas marked "FILL" on the Attachment.) Any surface drainage will be directed either along the road to the Leach Pad or off the road into the Pond 5 and onto the existing Carlton Mill Tailings area which area is contained by the tailings dam. This road is temporary in that it will disappear as (1) pad loading moves to the east and north and in that it will be removed during construction of the additional pad area to the west of the existing Leach Pad. Sediment controls are those normally used for all haul roads and, in this case, the off-road drainage can go nowhere other than onto the Carlton Mill Tails where it will be contained and settled. (2) use as a road base on the existing and planned haul roads that will service the mine. The roads as they are currently evolving within the Mine and as planned to extend outside the Mine area are shown on Attachment 2. The Pad ftl and Pad k2 material is an excellent, well-sorted road base that will help to reduce fire wear and to control dust by providing a medium for incorporation of dust control materials and reducing the fines that are generated by the overburden currently in use. Again, the sediment controls are those that are an integral part of our permit and procedures, with runoff controlled by the diversions with which you are intimately familiar, supplemented by revegetation, road ditches, settling areas, and sediment barriers. Some of this road base material will become waste material or even ore as the in-Mine roads are revised and the Mine is extended. (3) use as stemming material for blast holes. A map showing the Mine area and, therefore, the area to be drilled and where holes are to be stemmed is included as Attachment 3. The area involved is circumscribed around the designations "North Pit" and "South Pit." The size and well-sorted nature of the Pad !tl and Pad ii2 material make it most suitable for stemming blast holes. This material will, after being subject to moderate heat from the blasting, become either ore or waste, depending on where it is used inside the Mine area. Sediment controls for areas to be blasted are those provided by road configurations and by the fractured nature of the blasted rock. Not only does very little runoff occur from these areas due to the tact they are fractured by the blast, but the material remains in place for only a few days after blasting, at most. Of course the waste or overburden will be hauled to the overburden storage areas where sediment control is provided by temporary measures such as leaky dams, and by grading and revegetation. Surface-water runoff from the ore is ultimately contained by the leach pad and is contained at intermediate locations by control of spillage, surface-water diversion, and settling of solids through straw bales, silt fences, grading, and revegetation. The material to be used is no different geologically than that which is being mined and, according to the results of the meteoric water mobility tests, is benign with a slightly higher pH than might be generated by non-leached rock as a result of the extensive lime addition. All of the Pad ryl and the remainder of Pad N2 material was destined, under the approved permit, for the overburden storage area in Arequa Gulch. Use of these materials as requested 2