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EXHIBIT E - RECLAMATION PLAN The purpose of the Villard Pit #2 is to provide road construction and maintenance materials in the northern portion of Moffat County. The Moffat County Road Department (Operator) will crush and store road-base materials until they are used. It is expected that the storage pile will contain 35,000 cubic yards of this material and that it will last approximately 3 years before the crushiny crew will return. In addition to hauling crushed materials to project sites the truck crews will mine "pit-run" gravel and sand as needed. A third product will be over-sizeu rock that will be used for rip-rap. The elevation of this operation is 72GG feet which means that this will be, primarily, a summer gravel resource, although Moffat County may work parts of this mine in any season if necessary. Whenever it is practical the operator will yracie tiie mined- out portions of the excavation area as soon as possible, but the final grading and the application of topsoil normally will not be undertaken until a large portion of the pit is ready for reclamation. Moffat County will stabilize the topsoil piles, and reclaim the affected area with the standard seed-mix formula in Exhibit E-1 attached to this plan. SPECIFIC RECLAA7ATI0N INFORMATION 1. Overburden stockpiles will be graded, drai~ied and stabilized with the approved seed-mix application; 2. The maximum yradieiit of reclaimed slopes will be 4:1 (horizontal to vertical) except when some of the natural slopes may be steeper than 4:1. In that instance the reclamation crews will blend our slopes to fit the natural terrdiu; 3. The future use of the affected area will be rangeland; 4. The operator will replace from 8" to I2" of top-soil on the graded surfaces and will apply the seed-mix as described in Exhibit E-1. Moffat County prefers to seed the disturbed areas in late fall. However, the Road Department has major activities at the landfill, in public works projects, ici road construction and maintenance, and in the production of _~ yravei. We will seed the Villard Pit #2 when our resources are available for reclamation projects - we cannot exclude any seaso:~ of the year even if our prospects for re- vegetation success are slight. Our expected seeding times are 365 days per year. EXHIBIT E