PERMFILE107200

• Permit No: C1981008A
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Section_Exhibit Name: NH1 TAB 9 ATTACHMENT 9-3 TOPSOIL BALANCE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: Yes

• Table 9-3-2
Topsoil Salvage by Soil Map Unit for Mining
Areas 1 and 4, 1988-1989, Nucla Mine,
Montrose County, Colorado, July 1988
Topsoil Total Topsoil
Map Unit Area Salvage Depth Volume
Designation) (Acres) (Feet) (Ac.Ft.)
Disturbed2 56.38 - 82.123
Roads/Ponds 0.92 0.00 0.00
5810/7C-2 10.15 1.67 16.95
5810I/3B-2 0.10 2.00 0.20
5810I/7C-1 1.30 1.67 2.17
5810E/D-2 0.83 0.67 0.56
• 9904/D-2 1.65 0.50 0.82
Reclamation 1.42 1.00 1.42
5810/26-1 0.68 2.00 0.00
TOTAL 73.434 - 103.24
(102.80)3
1Map Unit Designation follows the 1979 Soil Survey in Tab 9 (Soil Survey).
2Area currently disturbed (Permit C-008-81) which will require replaced
topsoil. This total does not include sediment ponds (10.5 acres),
existing and proposed topsoil stockpiles (15.2 acres), explosive storage
area (1.1 acres), associated access roads (2.3 acres), pre-law spoil piles
(0.9 acres) pre-law shop area (0.1 acres) and pre-law facilities
(2.2 acres) which, when combined, total 32.3 acres.
3Topsoil which currently exists in stockpiles. See Exhibit 9-3,
Topsoil Balance Plan or Exhibit 12-1, Operations Plan, for locations
and Table 9-3-1 for individual stockpile volumes. TS 1 has 1.44 acre
feet which is dedicated to reclamation of temporary bypass road and thus
is not figured in the total available for other reclamation.
4Includes 44.95 acres of dryland pasture (15 inch topsoil replacement
depth) and 28.48 acres of rangeland (10 inch topsoil replacement depth)
reclamation areas. See Exhibit 13-1b, Postmine Soil Replacement Depths,
for site specific topsoil replacement areas.
9-3-8 Revised 07/26/88