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contains topsoil information only through th first permit term, Table 21-2A contain historic projections <br />(1999-2003). While Table 21-2B contains current future projections. Suitable topsoil will be salvaged • <br />from all significant disturbance areas includ ng sediment ponds (includes pond area, embankment, borrow <br />areas, and spillway for sites located down rainage of mining activities), haul roads, access roads, mining <br />area (includes box cut spoil and highwall r duction area, spoil and waste stockpile areas, office and shop <br />area, explosive storage area, and diversion itches). Topsoil will be removed from all cut and fill slopes. No <br />topsoil will be salvaged from the light use ro ds utilized for environmental monitoring or power line corridors, <br />except where cut and fills are required. Pri r to topsoil removal, trees and shrubs which are too large <br />for direct incorporation into the topsoil w II be mechanically chipped/mulched and incorporated with <br />the topsoil during salvages to help increa a soil organic matter levels or scraped away and combined <br />with the overburden. Occasionally, the ve elation will be transported to final graded slopes and placed in <br />brush piles throughout the reclamation. The emaining vegetation will be incorporated into the topsoil to help <br />increase soil organic matter levels. To preve t unnecessary contamination and loss due to sloughing, topsoil <br />shall be salvaged a minimum of 5 to 15 fee from the edge of a road, end of a pil, embankment, ditch, cut <br />slope, and toe of fill. Topsoil shall also be alvaged a minimum of 100 feet in advance of the active pit to <br />protect the soil resource from being conta inated during blasting, benching, drilling, and other mining <br />activities. Topsoil will be salvaged about 400 to 500 feet in advance of the active pit during late summer and <br />early fall to provide an adequate buffer during the winter months. <br />Topsoil will be removed by using self-loadin scrapers, push scrapers, or other rubber tired equipment. A <br />dozer or road grader will also be used when needed to assist scraper loading, to facilitate maximum topsoil <br />recovery, and to help build and shape topsoi stockpiles. Where topsoil exists on a steep slope and where • <br />there is enough room for scrapers to maneu rat the bottom of that slope, topsoil will be removed by being <br />pushed downhill with a dozer, picked up with scrapers, then stockpiled or transferred directly to final graded <br />areas. In other steep slope situations, top oil removed by dozers will be pushed outside of the topsoil <br />disturbance area and stored in approved sto piles at the bottom of that slope. Lastly, in final pit highwall <br />reduction areas, first pit boxcut spoil, along aul roads, and at pond construction sites, topsoil removed by <br />dozers will be pushed outside the topsoil di turbance area and stored temporarily (less than one year) in <br />windrows. Windrows will be located such t at no mining activities will disturb them and be marked with <br />topsoil signs to further distinguish them. Ber swill also be constructed to protect the wmdrow from erosion <br />and the potential loss of soil. This topsoil will either be respread over adjacent final graded slopes or will be <br />transported to an approved stockpile site. <br />A one-lift soil handling operation will be used r all soil map units within the projected disturbance area. This <br />method of topsoil removal is desirable be use the soils are either shallow (Splitro), moderately deep <br />(Winevada), or deep (Coutis), and have mini al subsoil profile development (thick, organic-rich "A" horizons <br />directly overlie sandstone bedrock), landsc pe slopes are steep to excessive (equipment mobility and <br />efficency is severely restricted), mi ing will provide a more erosion resistant and <br />• <br />PR04 24 Revised 09/04 <br />