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yen: ey: CANON CITY FSC; 719 275 30191 Aug-28-C4 2:17PM: Page 2 <br />iECEI~/Ej <br />~6 2 6 21Z05~ <br />Board of Supetlriaor5 248 Dozier AVe. <br />Joan Aoair. Pmsdent Cenort City, CO 81212 <br />Marvin Garrett. v. Pies. Phone (719) 275.4465 ixt. 101 <br />John i;.5andetur, SerJrraas <br />pavid Patch, Member <br />I.iMe Sterne, Member <br />Joe Loap, Akemate <br />August 25,20Dd <br />Jim Stark <br />Colorado Divisicn of Minerals & Geology <br />Denver, CO <br />Fax # (803) 832-8106 <br />RE: Energy Fuels Coal, Inc. - t_oadout site -Soil Charactreristies, AVF <br />DIVISIeh Of t,5rlet2l5 $ ~~1' <br />This letter is in response to your requestfor addh[onel Information regarding <br />reclamatipit work completed at the loudout site in Sac. 18; T185; R69W. <br />l accompanied Laura Craven, NRCS Soil Seientist, an August 4, 2004, while she <br />made the field check of existing soils cond~iens, at the site. Her report is dated also <br />August 4, 2004. <br />This sail area .previously identified (terrace soils) as an AVF is quite small, being only <br />a narrow strip of (Shanty) soA adjacent to the existing teEltOad fu and grade, the stte <br />examined August 4t^ is alotlg the north fringe of the larger #105 Shanty soli unit The <br />larger Sharrta.urtit extends mostly south east of ttre railroad grade. Therefore, tltis is a <br />fringe area artzi can be expected to differ somewhat from the typical Shanty soil <br />description in the Fremont County Soil Survey. <br />The report by Laura Craven, of August 4~, notes ihat the typical dark surface colors <br />due to organic matter are lacking and that there is now a difference in structure of,. the <br />surface horizon. Such differences, in lack of developed soil structure can be expected <br />where native sods have tseen disturbed either by grading, filling or even lay frequent <br />tflfl7l cultivation practices. Soil structure wit! redevelop over time once a permanent <br />grass cover is re-established. <br />On August 24"' I used a surveyors wheal to measure off (NW of railroad grade) vuhai I <br />believe to tier the Shanty soil area, in general between contour 5250 and 5255; the <br />area measured is small, only .7 of an acre. Above this elevation the soil changesta <br />#72 Midway-Cascajo complex and #52 Kim - Casrajo complex, Doth rangeland sott~. <br />GO'VSERVATION-DEVELOr'MENT-SELP-GOVERNMENT <br />E-mail atlCress: Janel.bamhan~co.nacdnet.net <br />