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Page 2 IMPACT STATEMENT--BLUE PIT--ZEMLOCK AND SON, INC. <br />what mitigated by the acceleration-deceleration lanes on Highway <br />42 and the present stand of trees and brush which obscures a portion <br />of the .access road from the highway. <br />Slopes created in the mining operation will not be hazardous to <br />wildlife with the exception of the immediate working face. However, <br />:since the area immediately above and below the working face will <br />he stripped of vegetation and topsoil, there should be little <br />attraction for wildlife to that area. The project area is not <br />1:nown to contain any wildlife migration routes. Further discuss- <br />ion is contained on exhibit three in the Reclamation Plan. <br />1'~n^~ will be constructed to prevent livestock from entering <br />operational areas. <br />The operations on the property will be separated from abutting <br />property for the first 25 to 30 years o.f operation by virtue of <br />the schedule o.f mining as shown on exhibits two and three. The <br />ri.d9e separating the operations through the mining of area 4 <br />from Flighway 82 will be mined'last,'at which time, Che~balance of <br />the project area will be reclaimed to farmland. <br />