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EXHIBIT C <br />The Pikeview Quarry currently occupies approximately 210 acres of private land <br />and produces limestone aggregate. Limestone is sold for concrete and asphalt related <br />products, as landscaping materials, and as road base or is used as backfill for reclamation <br />purposes. Under [he proposed action, the quarry would be expanded to occupy up to 26 <br />acres[ of National Forest System ]and in order to lay back its top cut. The proposed <br />layback operation (also referred to as west reclamation) would occur in addition to the <br />cutrent Pikeview Quarry reclamation in already permitted mining areas. It would allow <br />the reclamation of the currently steep slopes in the west side of the quarry thus improving -- - <br />their stability and the muting of additional materials close to the steep slopes that <br />currently remain inaccessible due to safety issues. <br />The materials removed from the federal land (limestone and decomposed granite) <br />and from the additional mining within the current permitted area (limestone and granite) <br />during the layback operation would be used for several different purposes. If limestone is <br />found on National Forest System lands and is commercially viable, i[ will be purchased <br />from the U.S. Forest Service by the applicant. Otherwise, it will be used with <br />decomposed granite on site as fill. Part of the limestone (approximately one third) found <br />within the current permitted area would be sold by the applicant. The remaining could be <br />used as road base or fill material. This unsaleable limestone results from the mining <br />technique for the layback, which includes the pushing of the inferior decomposed granite <br />from the top down over the limestone. Thus, the limestone becomes mixed with other <br />materials and can only be sold in the market as road base or fill material. Given that the <br />market is not able to absorb [he totality of road base materials (decomposed granite <br />mixed with limestone), about 7,600,000 tons of these materials would be used as backfill <br />in mined areas, and only about 1,900,000 tons of materials (limestone and decomposed <br />granite) would be sold as road base, primary rock products, and secondary products. <br />Current operations and production levels would continue and the overall life of <br />the mine, including mining and reclamation, would be extended from about 5 to 8 years <br />to about 12 years. Mining would continue for about 10 years and reclamation would <br />continue until 2 years after the conclusion of the mining operations. Current operations <br />include 20 to 25 employees, working Monday through Saturday from lam to Spm. <br />After reclamation, it is anticipated that the steep slopes on private land (quarry <br />back walls) would become open space. The primary post-mining land use identified in <br />the proposed plan for that area is wildlife habitat. The applicant is considering the <br />reclamation of the lower (flat) areas of the mine for light industrial use but no definite <br />development plan exists at the present time. <br />Although the applicant would have 26 acres available for the layback operation, current mining plans <br />indicate that onl y about 13 acres would be needed. In addition to the 13 acres directly affected by the <br />layback, part of the permitted area would be used to stockpile topsoil. <br />