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ITEM 5A: The twenty two (22) exploration drill holes will be drilled with a truck mounted drilling rig (comparable in size to a Gardner Denver 1000 or 1500). All drilling will be done with air/mistffoam and the rig will have a mud pump to facilitate mixing and pumping mud for hole plugging and abandonment. Cuttings will be used in plugging the holes and will be collected and described (lithology) for five-foot intervals. Drilling will commence with a 5-1/8" or 5-1/4" diameter pilot hole through the coal to approximately twenty feet below the coal seam. Immediately after the holes are drilled, a bentonite slurry (drilling mud: 50 second Marsh funnel viscosity) will be pumped into the hole for purposes of conditioning and stabilizing the hole. The rig will then move off the hole. Each hole will then be logged with geophysical tools (natural gamma ray, gamma-gamma density, resistivity, and caliper). Soon after the drilling has been completed, about one out of every five holes will be "twinned" and core drilled through the coal. No topsoil leveling or removal will be necessary at drilling locations or for drilling rig access. Access will be by highway or overland travel designed to minimize surface disturbance. All drill holes will be plugged and sealed immediately after completion of drilling and logging. Cuttings from drilling will be placed in drill holes. Excess cuttings will be disposed of or removed. All drilling sites will be cleared of any trash or debris and left in neat and orderly fashion. ITEM 5.6.1: None ITEM 5.6.2: None ITEM 5.6.3: Bottlebrush Squirreltail 8.0 Ibs/PLS/AC Western Wheatgrass 8.0 Ibs/PLS/AC Or as stipulated by the surface land owner. ITEM 5.6.4: See Attached Table 1 ITEM 5.6.5: Aquifers are not expected to be encountered during this drilling program due to the shallow nature of the drill holes and the fact that the coal strata at Second Park and Cyprus Block is anticipated to be relatively dry because of the numerous