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-45- • MR. MASSEY: Okay. The first witness I would like to introduce is Dr. Sam Bamberg. Sam is an expert in soils and revegetation. I'd like -- Sam, if you could describe your qualifications and address the issues that were raised by Mr. Cohen concerning topsoil requirements and potential revegetation success, given a Battle Mountain Permit Application. MR. DANIELSON: Excuse me, Mr. Bamberg, were you sworn at the last meeting? MR. BAMBERG: Yes, I was. My name is Samuel Bamberg. I have a Ph .D in plants and soils. I have done extensive work in mountain areas in the west. I started working in the western United States, out of Grand Junction, in 1954. Am I speaking loud enough? Okay, I'll try to raise my voice. I'm not a -- I worked in the inter-mountain west, specifically on plant, soil substrate relationships for the past twenty-five years. My specific academic work was in mountain areas in which I did plant, soil, substrate • relationships, exactly the kind of thing that you need to do in corder to be able to understand, get information and make recommendations on rreclamation projects. I've worked on approximately 15 to 18 projects, including gold mines, uranium mines, and copper mines in the western United States. I have a broad background also in the substrate relationships of acid generation; how to deal with that in reclamation projects. I've dealt specifically with that. I've had hands-on experience in actual soil stripping, reclamation, inter-reclamation on the large -- on large scale reclamation projects. I've worked on the McClaughlin project in California. I've worked in both Utah and in Colorado. I've done work anywhere from Summitville on down imto the plains. I've also done work locally for reclamation revegetatiom on flood plains. I've worked with Cooley Gravel, locally, so I have also background locally here. To address Mr. Cohen's specific problems and objections to the reclamation we have put together, I would also like to say that the plan was reviewed by the Mined Land Reclamation people, by Camille Farrell who we had extensive discussions with and the recommendations that she made have been • incorporated into the reclamation plan.