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in Exhibit 10, Letter from Mr. Dan Lynn of the U.S.D.A. SCS regarding <br />• Vegetation, Revegetation, and Prime Farmland, of the original permit <br />area. <br />Before any disturbance by mining activities, the U.S.D.A. SCS considered <br />the area to be used for surface facilities by Peerless Resources, Inc. <br />to be in the Loamy Park range site. General parameters for the Loamy <br />Park range site are as follows: <br />Total Annual Production <br />(Pounds of air dry forage, per year) <br />Unfavorable year ....................... 800 <br />Normal year ............................ 1,500 <br />Favorable year ................... ... 1,800 <br />Optimum Ground Cover ........................ 25-30% <br />• Although noted throughout the permit application, it should be <br />nonetheless again emphasized that the area to be used by Peerless <br />Resources, Inc. has been disturbed by previous mining activities. <br />Therefore, this area cannot really now be classified as a Loamy Park <br />range site. The virgin vegetation and soils have been destroyed and <br />disturbed. Originally, the sails found in this area were the Jodero <br />Loam (A3-B) and the Archuleta-Sanchez Complex (XC5F) as shown on the <br />Soils Map (Map 4) found in the permit area. <br />The A3-B soils were found in the valley bottom, and the rangeland <br />vegetation of this mapping unit consists of Arizona fescue, mountain <br />mulch, needle-and-thread, western wheatgrass, and gambel oak., <br />The XC5F soils are found on the south face slopes generally above the <br />planned Peerless Resources, Inc. surface facilities; the native <br />vegetation found on this mapping unit includes ponderosa pine, gambel <br />oak, bitterbrush, fringed sagebrush, mountain mahogany, servicebetty, <br />• snowbetty, Oregon grape, Arizona fescue, mountain brome, bluegrass, elk <br />sedge, and a few pinon pine, and Rocky Mountain junipers. <br />MAR 0 4 1986 <br />2.09,-27A ~; <br />