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<br />' EXHIBIT D (Cont'd) <br />' annual operation in which a dragline, dozer and front-end <br /> loader are used to excavate between two and seven feet of <br />' boulders, cobbles, pebbles and sand. The material is exposed; <br /> there is no topsoil or overburden to be moved or stored. <br /> ortable <br />to a <br />rial i <br />m <br />v <br />d directl <br />Aft <br />ti <br />th <br />t <br /> p <br />y <br />er excava <br />on, <br />e na <br />e <br />s <br />o <br />e <br />1 crusher on site. After crushing and sizing, the material is <br /> moved off the affected land to a permanent concrete ready-mix <br />1 plant. <br /> The mining of Stage 1 each year will commence after the <br />i North Fork has subsided from the spring run-off. The small <br /> amount of water running in the river will be routed along the <br /> northwest bank of the riverbed so that the rest of the riverbed <br />' and the southeast flood plain area may be excavated. In this <br /> way there will be only momentary interruption of stream flow. <br /> Stage 1 will be repeated annually, with the North Fork <br />I filling the excavation left from the previous mining season <br /> during the run-off each spring. The rock thus trapped in the <br /> excavated area will not move on to aggrade the stream bed and <br /> plague the Highway Department and downstream farms. Reclama- <br />' tion will be a natural occurrence once each year in the spring. <br />' In a very, very dry year the run-off might not entirely <br /> fill the excavated area of Stage 1. In such event, the area <br />' of Stage 2 and/or 3 might be excavated. Stage 2 would operate <br /> and reclaim in the same manner as Stage 1. However, Stage 3 <br /> 1 <br /> <br />' 6 <br /> <br />