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• i <br />EXHIBIT E RECLAMATION PLAN <br />This Reclamation Plan pertains to an area of approximately 40 acres, <br />which includes a mineral waste disposal pile and associated lands. The <br />location is a box canyon locally named Dry Gulch in the E 1/2 NW 1/4, SEC. <br />25, T7S, R97W, 6th PI4. Debeque, Colorado is approximately 10 miles South <br />of this Occidental Oil Shale Operation. <br />BACKGROUND <br />The east side of Dry Gulch has no vegetation due to the presence of the <br />existing mineral waste except for the northernmost 1000 feet of the area <br />where sparse mountain browse occurs on natural talus. The west side of Dry <br />Gulch has a sparse mountain browse community interspersed with barren talus <br />slopes. The mountain browse community on this slope is dominated by service <br />berry (Amelanchier alnifolia) and lacks any appreciable grass or forb under- <br />cover. The talus slopes are narrow strips of colluvial material wasting from <br />the Mahogany Ledge. These narrow strips resemble "landslides" and occur at <br />all exposures on OXY property as well as throughout Oil Shale Country. Robert <br />Bailey of the U.S.F.S. Ex periinent Station in Ogden, Utah has captioned a picture <br />of a talus slope in the Teton National Forest with the following: <br />"...So long as the talus slope is being freshly formed by recurrent rock falls, <br />sufficient vegetation cannot become established to stabilze the surface'.': <br />Most of the waste disposal pile at Anvil Points has been in place at least 10 <br />years and has weathered to the color of the natural slopes. The natural slopes <br />show essentially no vegetation over nearly their total extent. <br />