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<br />Other Agency Comments <br />Division of Wildlife <br />The final mining plan will be modified in Exhibit C Mining Plan and Exhibit D Mining Plan to <br />include the recommended mitigation of a setback on the western edge of the Permit boundary <br />and to preserve a 175 foot wide `'shortgrass prairie habitat" and to restrict roadways to active <br />mining and leveling areas only. The strip of shortgrass prairie habitat including the large wedge <br />of prairie at the Southwest corner will be delineated ou the Exhibit C Mining Plan Map. Mining <br />is planned only in aeeas that are currently being farmed. Mining and leveling will not occur in <br />the shortgrass prairie habitat area. , <br />Public comments <br />1.) Topsoil <br />Please refer to our response to DMG Concern #1 <br />2.) Water & Retention <br />This is a dry mining operation. Encounters with groundwater are not expected. See included <br />well data from the State Engineer's office for well depths in nearby properties. Any water used <br />for dust suppression will be secured from a legal source such as, but not limited to the source at <br />Arapahoe Road and Gun Club Road. Approximately 8000 gallons per day of water will be <br />required for 100 days of mining and reclamation activities on a worst case estimate basis. <br />Retention ponds are therefor not required. ~ <br />Compounds such as lignon sulfonate and magnesium cliloride may be used to aid dust <br />suppression on haul roads. <br />3.) Cut & Fill and Drainage <br />It is the operators intention to affect the entire proposed permit area with the exception of the <br />strip of grassland on the western boundary. This strip is approximately 175 feet wide and will <br />not be affected.. This strip of grassland is not currently being farmed. <br />The Operator will preserve the minor, unnamed, intermittent drainage way that declines toward <br />the northwest (see Reclamation Plan Map). <br />