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CONFIDENTIAL <br />• Exhibit L <br />Reclamation Costs <br />The detailed cost summary for the Coaldale Reclamation Plan is broken down <br />into the various phases of the program, enabling isolation of the specific costs <br />for each phase. A general summary, will follow, resulting in a total cost or <br />initial captial expenditures and maintenance costs that will accumulate each <br />year, and a total cost for an active field season of tree transplantings. <br />An annual cost total and cost per ton ore mined will follow, for budgetary pur- <br />poses, as will total costs per acre of affected land. <br />Phase One <br />Site preparation <br />Initial projections show that Dozer work will entail the mainstay of site pre- <br />partition, atleast until a farm tractor is procurre3 in the near future. At <br />• the present time, dozer work is planned for about one and one-half days per <br />month, in order to get ahead of poor mining practices in the past. Presently, <br />90% of the Phase One costs will be buried in waste removal costs, through cor- <br />rect planning of waste removal and integration of the Reclamation Program into <br />daily wining activities. The other 10% of site preparation costs will be <br />absorbed in the yearly Reclamation & maintenance cost and through the use of <br />a small farm tractor and limited farm equipment, planned for purchase in the <br />first year of active reclamation work. For these reasons, the dozer work cost <br />summary is not found in the actual cost summary for reclamation costs. Actually, <br />through correct planning, waste removal monies have been covering Phase One re- <br />clamation costs for the past six months at Coaldale. It is planned to continue <br />this mode of cost structure, since an integration of reclamation costs into <br />real mining costa is an operating necessity in this particular operation, ,just <br />• as waste removal must be integrated with daily production costs. <br />