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<br />EXHIBIT D - Mining Plan <br />The Little Snake Pit #26 is situated on a relatively flat <br />abandoned alluvial flood plain, the west boundary of the affected <br />area will be approximately 1000' east of the Little Snake River. <br />The ground is sparsely covered with short varities of <br />wheatgrass, prairie junegrass, Indian ricegrass and short <br />sagebrush and other potential plant species listed in Exhibit J. <br />The soil type is listed by the U.S. Soil Conservation <br />Service as (237) Fonce sandy loam. (Exhibit I) The gravel <br />deposit was benched on a sandstone bedrock. The average thickness <br />of mineable gravel is expected to be Seto 10 feet including 2 <br />feet of sandy clay-loam overburden material to be used in the <br />manufacture of road base gravel. This deposit is generally <br />expected to be of a good gravel resource. However, it may <br />burdened in some areas with unsuitable sand, or sandy lenses <br />within the affected area that will not be mined. <br />Moffat County will strip 8" to 12" of topsoil from the <br />affected area. This humic material will be stockpiled in an <br />inactive portion of the project. This material will be protected <br />from local drainage channels, until needed for reclamation. The <br />topsoil piles will be stabilized by seeding them with Moffat <br />County's approved seed-mix and application formula. Signs will <br />be placed to identify the topsoil and to caution not to remove. <br />Overburden piles will be stabilized and protected from erosion. <br />Moffat County will upgrade the existing County Road #26 to <br />cu~renf-devel9gment standards. There are no other significant <br />man-made structures or recorded easements within 200 feet of the <br />affected area. The significant disturbances are limited to <br />mining, crushing, storing and removal of surface mineable <br />materials on the permitted area. The surface of the affected <br />area is owned by the BLM and leased to Moffat County by Free-Use <br />Permit #COC-61232 attached as Exhibit N. There are no other land <br />owners within 200' of the affected area. <br />Surface mining will occur in two ways. For roadbase <br />production we will use 5 yard front-end loaders to excavate along <br />a vertical face, and to transport the mined material to the <br />crushing and screening plant. This processed material will be <br />stockpiled by a conveyor in the permitted area for future use. <br />EXHIBIT ~ <br />