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<br />EXHIBIT E <br />Reclamation Plan <br />Native Red Clay Kline <br />' Upon completion of mining activities the highwall will be back- <br />, filled with discarded brick factory materials and processing waste <br />material. The purpose of the backfilling is to stabilize the highwall <br />and prevent slumping, sliding, or subsidence of the surface adjacent <br />to the top of the highwall. After regrading of the spoils material, <br />' the stcckpiled topsoil will then be regraded to an average depth of <br />6" over the pit site and haul roads, then furrowed and broadcast seeded <br />at a rate of 80 seeds/sq.ft. with native grass species to approximate <br />' the prior existing vegetational species diversity (see Exhibit D). <br />Due to the industrial nature of this property and its prior dis- <br />ruption no natural stands of vegetation remain. Therefore, no transect <br />of value could be conducted. Those vegetational species present are <br />pioneer and successional stands conmonly on disrupted lands in this <br />' ecotone. They represent a successional stage between bare earth and <br />a climax short grass prarie. <br />Based on field surveys of undisturbed portions of the lease area <br />adjacent to the mine, it is anticipated that a seeding mixture of <br />30% Blue Grama, 20% Legume species, 30% Ricegrass species and 20% Wheat- <br />crass will be used. Other native grass species present on the site <br />are not commercially available as seed. Should data become available <br />indicating edaphic conditions more appropriate for other species of <br />' native grasses, modifications of species types and ratios in the <br />seeding mixture may be implemented. <br /> <br />