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• Yearly cost summary of Dozer costs, isolated from waste removal costs: <br />Approximately 140 machine hours at cost of $17.60/Net oper. hour <br />(1976) operating data) <br />$2500.00 <br />It might be noted that this sum is not additional to reclamation costs, but <br />more like that amount of waste removal costs, through planning, that will <br />result in a site sufficiently prepared for Phase Two of the Reclamation Pro- <br />gram. <br />Phase Two <br />Seedling Plantings <br />A yearly cost breakdown as follows: <br />1000 seedlings @ .40 per tree $.400.00 <br />Labor for seedling planting, $.65 per tree $ 650.00 <br />Drip irrigation system experimentation for <br />300 trees, first year, 300 second year, ect. $ 400.00 <br />• Fertilizers, mulches, additional materials... $1000.00 <br />Supervision, maintenance, and operation of <br />irrigation system, via summer student from <br />Leadville environmental Tech. program,..... $1800.00 <br />Fall/winter native tranplanting program <br />(eight days @ three men, @ $3.50/hr.) $ 700.00 <br />Total Annual Costs ...... $4950.00 <br />Total Annual Acres Reclaimed ...... 4 <br />Total Cost per Acre $1237.50 <br />Note: These estimates provide for realistic costs for the particular aspects <br />of the Coaldale area. It is planned that total costs should decrease to les~ <br />than $1000.00 per acre within the third season of reclamation activities, when <br />i <br />I <br />reclamation technology at Coaldale is developed and refined. <br />• <br />,f. <br />