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will take place because the dismantlement will be accompli::hed by hand <br />with the aid of a helicopter. <br />Portal Area (3) <br />Seven of the 28 acres comprising the tunnel portal area (3) <br />were regraded in 1976 and are being revegetated. Some buildings and <br />material are enclosed in a fenced yard on the remaining 21 acres. <br />Most buildings and material occupying the 21 acres will be removed and <br />the area zevegetated by 1963 leaving approximately 2 acres of track, <br />portal face-up disturbance, rectifier, storage and dry buildings, for <br />reclamation at mine closure when the portal will be closed, the track <br />and buildings salvaged and the area regraded and revegetate:d to open <br />forest. <br /> <br />Surface Railroad (4) <br />Most of the 4.8 mile long surface railroad (4) to the mill <br />from the portal is cut and fill. The revegetatable cut and fill <br />slopes were hydromulched in 1972, have since been maintenaxice fertil- <br />ized, and presently have relatively good stands of vegetat:_on. The <br />large fill across the Williams Fork Valley from the portal was con- <br />structed with waste rock from tunnel construction. The fi::l was <br />covered with approximately 3 inches of topsoil salvaged from within <br />the tailing basin in 1974 and 1975 and hydromulched in the fall of <br />1975. These slopes are also presently vigorous. <br />Of the total 1D5 acres disturbed by the surface :-ailroad, <br />only the 36 acres occupied by the bed will require reclamation at mine <br />closure. The process of reclaiming these 36 acres will be similar to <br />9-12 <br />