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1. What tools and equipment are used in the quarry operations? This includes such tools as; pry bars, hand tools, front end loaders, fork lifts, trucks, caterpillar tractor, rock saw, etc. 2. How many acres is each quarry site? This should also be accurately protrayed on the mining plan map, Exhibit C. 3. Is rubble/overburden removed before actual quarrying begins? How is this done (caterpillar, shovel)? What is done with this material after removal (pushed in a pile away from the quarry, removed from the site, spread out, etc.)? Please answer the last question in detail and show the location of the stockpile on the mining plan map, Exhibit C. 4. Our understanding of the quarrying operation is this; overburden is removed and put in a rubble pile or spread out for moss rock. The sandstone is then pryed from its natural stable by manual methods. The time span between uncovering the sandstone and quarrying it may be a year or more. The sandstone is then separated by quality and size, some sandstone being cut by a rock saw into predetermined dimensions. The sandstone is then stacked on palets and loaded onto trucks and taken to a stone yard or job site. There is a certain amount of quarried sandstone kept on the site in anticipation of future demand. Thsi is usually less than SU pallets. Less than 70,000 tons of sandstone are quarried each year. There may be more than one quarry in some stage of mining at any one time within the permit area and the life span of these quarries are indefinite. Please comment on and clarify the above mining plan. 5. All topsoil/overburden material should be saved for future use in reclamation. Where topsoil occurs on the site, it should be removed and stockpiled separate from the common rubble for later replacement. A grass cover crops should then be planted on this topsoil stockpile to protect it from wind and water erosion and the preserve it in a useful state.