PERMFILE125444

• Permit No: M1999048
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Section_Exhibit Name: P. Application
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

EXHIBIT E - Reclamation Plan
The purpose of the Little Snake Pit #26 is to provide a
source of road construction materials in the area of County Road
#21 and #19. 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 last for three or four years
before the operator will periodically need to operate the crusher
in this pit. Pit-run mining and stockpile reduction activities
will continue as needed.
Whenever it is practical the operator will grade the mined-
out portions of the excavation area as soon as possible. But the
final grading and application of the topsoil, generally, will not
be undertaken until the whole 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 RECLAMATION INFORMATION
1. Overburden stockpiles will be graded, drained and stabilized
with the approved seed-mix application;
2. The maximum gradient of reclaimed slopes will be 4:1
(horizontal to vertical);
3. The future use of the affected area will be rangeland;
4. The operator will replace from 8" to 12" of topsoil on the
graded surfaces and will apply the approved seed-mix formula in
Exhibit E-1 attached to this plan;
5. The topsoil will be disced to bind it with the sub-soil and it
will either be drilled '~" to 1" deep in the prepared seedbed, or,
the seed will be broadcast at the rates specified in Exhibit E-
1;
6. If broadcast the seed shall be raked or harrowed after
application;
7. Mulch and fertilizer will not be effective in this soils
type, therefore, it will not be used.
EXHIBIT E