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American Soda has provisions in place to avoid impacts to buried structures during pipeline construction. These including ascertaining all points of intersection with adjacent pipelines using the ONE CALL system or similar underground utilities location system, physically locating buried facilities to avoid damaging them during the construction process, contacting affected right-of-way holders prior to construction, conducting preconstruction conferences with contractors or agents involved with construction and/or any surface-disturbing activities associated with the pipeline prior to commencing construction and/or surface-disturbing activities, and providing maps or survey plats of the project to operators of all pipelines to be crossed or paralleled by the Yankee Gulch Project pipelines. It should be noted that the proposed pipeline crossings would normally be constructed beneath existing utility lines. A backhoe and hand labor would be used to excavate the pipeline trench in such areas to allow passage of the new pipeline under the existing pipelines. Oil and/or Gas Wells Efforts have been made to route the pipelines away from oil and gas wells wherever possible. Three wells owned by Mobil Corporation will be approached within 200 feet by the pipeline corridor: one in T2S, R97W, Section 12, one in T2S, R96W, Section 16, and one in T2S, R96W, Section 29. S.3 Structures within 200 Feet of the Parachute Site The Parachute Site will be surrounded predominantly by other land owned by American Soda (see Exhibit O), and very few man-made structures will be situated within 200 feet of the site. Known structures include the natural gas lines in T6S, R96W, Section 34 that are part of the 5-party corridor described in Table S-3 above. In addition, County Road 215 is within 200 feet of the eastern property boundary of the site. The Yankee Gulch Project Parachute Site processing operations will be operated under a Garfield County Special Use Permit. The project will use a dedicated rail spur that runs approximately 4 miles from the Piceance Site to the Union Pacific Railroad main line near the town of Parachute. American Soda intends to reinstall tracks along the existing rail spur roadbed and warning signalization at the road crossings. Minor realignment of the rail spur may be necessary in the vicinity of the recently constructed Rulison natural gas compressor station. In addition to the Rulison compressor station, other structures within 200 feet of the rail spur include Barrett Resources' office and yard and the Firetrucks Northwest, Inc. building. The rail spur also crosses Garfield County Road 215 and the Interstate 70 frontage road (formerly U.S. Highway 6 and 24) and passes under Interstate 70. Because the roadbed already exists, there will be no significant construction or earthwork required for this aspect of the project. Other than the one scheduled round trip per day that will begin once commercial operations are initiated, there will be no significant change to current conditions. S-5