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uso. scs SL5~69 19.52) RECORD OF COOPERATOR'S DECISIONS AND PROGRESS IN APPLICATION COOPERATOR Col O.State Dept, Of Hwy E. ASSISTED DY D, Loukonen DATE 11-80 PUNNED APPLIED FIELD MONTH ' UND USE AND TREATMENT NUMBER AMOUNT YEAR AMOUNT AND YEAR Locations Proposed gravel pit is approximately 4.5 miles E. of Cotopaxi pn Highway 50. Commercial-Industrial Iand Pit'xill be used to provide gravel for the state highxay depaztment. Dis turbed azeas x111 be reclaimed to nonlrrigated pastureland. RECLAMATION PLAN r• Critical Area Treatments ,. Topsoil StockpillnR - topsoil x111 be stockpiled at the in itlation of th mining process. The first six to fourteen Snches of soil will be stock piled separately from the remaining suitable subsoil to be stockpiled. Stockpiles x111 be graded and sloped to 4~1 grade or less. Stockpiles xil be firmed and seeded if they x111 not be disturbed and no additional soil x111 be added to the stockpile for more than a year. Use crested xheatgrass at 10 pounds per acre, • Soil Profile Reconstruction - As all gravel is mined from designated areas xithin the affected area, active reclamation x111 commence. Reclam ation x111 be carried on concurrently with mining thereafter, using suit- abie plant groxth material from excavated areas and stockpiles. Soil pro files x111 be reconstructed Sn the reverse order in xhich soil material xere removed as overburden. The original topsoil and best suited soil material x111 not be spread over the reconstructed subsoil until the sub- soil material has been graded and shaped to the final grade. Slopes and contours x111 be blended into the existing topography as nearly as posslb Grade x111 be 4~1 or less. At least.28 S,q~ec.~-eleSta'h1e topsoil mater- ial'w1T1 then be spread uniformallyc over the subsoil. The soil x111 then be~chiseled or ripped to a depth of 20 inches to provide adhesion between thn r.o7] ]nyr,rn and lncrrarf, nn11 xntrr hn]dinp, enpncity. e.