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Parkdale Proiect • III IIIIIIIIIIIII III ~ Reclamation Permit <br />Exhibit E -Reclamation Plan <br />1.0 Introduction <br />The Parkdale Project Reclamation Plan includes two major sections. Section 1 describes <br />techniques and methods to be employed during the pre-mining and active mining phases <br />of the project while Section 2 describes post-mining reclamation activities. <br />1.1 Post-mining Land Use <br />The Parkdale Ranch Project Area will be reclaimed to open space and dry land pasture <br />consistent with pre-mining land use and the overall development of adjacent lands. <br />Concurrent reclamation of disturbed azeas will be implemented to the extent possible. <br />The Gravel Baz area will be backfilled with available overburden. All disturbed areas <br />will be graded. Current plans for permanent reclamation /stabilization measures include <br />development of apost-mining topography that is self-draining and which blends into <br />adjacent undisturbed lands to the extent possible. Following grading, disturbed areas <br />except for the quarry faces and benches will be topsoiled and seeded with the permanent <br />seed mix. The quarry faces and benches will be left in the as mined condition. <br />1.2 Soil and Overburden Salvage <br />Available soil will be salvaged at a depth ranging between 6 and 18 inches over the areas <br />to be mined by operations at Parkdale. Occasionally, occurrences of overburden will be <br />removed from some of the gravel baz areas to be mined. <br />1.3 Soil Salvage <br />Available soil will be stripped from, and a buffer of at least 10 feet will be stripped ahead <br />of, any area to be mined, excavated, graded or used as a permanent mineral or <br />overburden disposal site. Available soil will be salvaged at a depth ranging between 6 <br />and 18 inches over the areas to be mined by operations at Parkdale. Up to 6 inches of <br />soil, where available, will be stripped from overburden, and mineral stockpile areas, <br />processing facility areas, staging areas, improved, expanded, and new access, haul, and <br />support road locations that will be graded or surfaced, and any other similar areas to be <br />disturbed. Soil screened from the gravel bar aggregate during processing will be saved <br />for future use as topsoil in reclamation. An average of 12 inches of soil will be salvaged <br />from the Gravel Baz Mine area and 6 inches from the granite Quarry process area and the <br />plant and mineral stockpile azeas. Soil will be handled separately from overburden and <br />either hauled directly to graded or prepazed azeas or stockpiled where it will not be <br />disturbed, contaminated, or lost to erosion. No soil is available for salvage from the <br />granite quarry area. <br />