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<br /> <br />depending on the need for gravel within the area. <br />As mentioned above, each area of major disturbance will be <br />reclaimed using the overburden of soil from the ongoing <br />excavation so that no more than ~ 10 acres are affected at any <br />one time. Currently there is an area of approximately 2.5 acrea <br />within the 30 acres which was mined previously by the State of <br />New Mexico. Once this perm~t application is approved and a gravel <br />contract acquired, the overburden removed to fulfill that <br />contract will be placed on the old excavation and seeded <br />according to the Reclamation Plan. <br />As mentioned above, the overburden is approximately 6" deep <br />and is soil as noted in Exhibit I. The nature of the stratum <br />immediately beneath the material to mined is lava rock. <br />EXHIBIT E: Reclamation Plan <br />(a) All pits, haul roads and construction camps, if any, <br />upon completion of use, shall be cleaned free of equipment and <br />trash. All overburden or fines shall be leveled, all sideslopes <br />of the pit areas shall be graded to ~:1 or flatter, the areas <br />shall be ripped to a depth of 4 to 6 inches, fertilized and <br />seeded with the recommended mixtures. <br />Recommended Seeding Mixture <br />Species <br />Blue Grama <br />Sidecats Grama <br />Little Bluestem <br />Western Wheatgrass <br />Indian Rice Grass <br />origin <br />Covington <br />Vaughn <br />Pastura <br />New Mexico, Colorado <br />New Mexico, Arizona <br />West Texas <br />Seed will be drilled and rolled. <br />Pounds per Live <br />Seed per Acre <br />2.0 <br />5,0 <br />3.0 <br />6.0 <br />4.0 <br />20.0 <br />Fertilizer Required per acre: <br />One Hundred Pounds 16-20-0 Ammonium Nitrate <br />One Hundred Pounds 38-0-0 Urea Formaldehyde Nitrogen <br />On=_ Hundred Pounds 0-45-0 SupErC Triple Phosphate <br />Also, cattle will be fed on the property and manure will build up <br />humus in the soil. <br />- 2 - <br />