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• iii iiiiiiiii <br />EMRx CORPORATION <br />P.O. Box 1550 • Palisade, Colorado 81526 • (303) 245-0795 <br />January 29. 1987 <br />Carl B. Mount, Reclamation Specialist <br />Mined Land Reclamation Division <br />423 Centennial Building <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />Dear Carl: <br />FE4 051997 <br />MINED LAND <br />[1ECLAMATION DIVISION <br />Attached is a memo from Doug VanHouten covering the reclamation cost <br />Information you requested on cut-and-f 111 roadways. <br />As Doug points out these costs vary widely depending on slope, grade. available <br />material, seed mix, labor rates and any necessary preparation work such as <br />capping holes or removing structures and facilities. <br />In this specific instance. costs were higher than would be normally anticipated <br />on a road of this slope and grade for three reasons: <br />1. The recontouring required extensive selection of material from the berm <br />areas with the backhoe bucket. As the available topsoil was scarce <br />on the lower half of the road, it was necessary to selectively place <br />the rock and coarser material at the bottom and inside of the cut to <br />optimize use of the available topsoil. This was time consuming and <br />attributed to higher cost than on the upper reaches of the roadway <br />where topsoil was in abundance. <br />2. Seed costs were much higher due to heavier application and use of a <br />shrub plant seed mixture. This was done because of future <br />lnaccessabllity of the reclaimed area. <br />3. The backhoe was used for recontouring work around and for other work <br />such as capping of holes and wells and dismantling piping, equipment <br />and structures. It was not used exclusively and continually for <br />recontouring. <br />I hope this provides the information you need. <br />I sincerely appreciated the opportunity to sit down with yourself and Jim <br />McArdle last week. It was very informative and I hope, eventually, rewarding. <br />