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i <br />Exhibit <br />I <br />• <br />Reclamation Plan <br />The Placers of Pennsylvania Mountain have bee known for <br />over 100 years. These placers have been worked intermittently <br />until about 1950. The placer on the Bullger Basin clam has been <br />mined or explored nearly every year since 1949. The large <br />tailing piles, ponds, and pits testify to this history Old mine <br />wreckage is still abundant even though a good portion of it has <br />been cleaned up for safety and development reasons. <br />The area of Phase I and II is completely within the area of <br />past operations and is, therefore, in an extremely disturbed <br />condition. No undisturbed topsoil material exists ue to this <br />• 30-years-plus mining history. The area essentially onsists of <br />tailings, tailing ponds, mine pits, and mine wreckage.) <br />Phase II has been disturbed similarly but to a le ser extent <br />than Phase I. A majority of the area in Phase I has been <br />affected. Phase III is for the most part above the ar~a mined by <br />past operations. But numerous test pits and trenches land access <br />ways have modified the area. <br />The post-mining condition of the mine proper y will be <br />wildlife habitat and historic mine site. The reclai ing of the <br />permit area to wildlife habitat will correlate to the surrounding <br />land's use. Since the properties in the general vi~inity are <br />dormant patent mining claims and forest servicecontrolled <br />lands, the area has generally been wildlife habitat. ~it~ <br />• 9 <br />