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• II • <br />and the wishes of the landowner to avoid any specie (such as alfalfa) that may induce <br />livestock bloating from uncontrolled range grazing ing soon. <br />25. Preparer's name, signature, and effective date of co pletion have been added to the <br />Exhibit F Reclamation Map. <br />26. The unexplained figures on the Exhibit F Recl anon Map have no pertinent <br />function and have been removed. <br />27. The Exhibits have been revised to reflect that th production operations water <br />holding and settling ponds (with 3:1 slope banks) are to be retained following <br />reclamation. <br />28. The unintentional exclusion of the remainder of the 5860-foot contour on the <br />reclamation map has been rectified, hopefiilly communicating the terminus of <br />excavation at the permit north boundary and eliminating the confusion that omission <br />had generated. <br />Exhibit G -Water Information <br />29. An agreement has been worked out with the landowner to lease Nucla C-C Ditch <br />irrigation water rights to be transferred temporarily tq industrial use per Colorado <br />Water Court procedures. Use of the storage/settling ponds constructed and <br />employed by the operator shall be concurrently em~rloyed by the landowner for <br />gravity pressure irrigation of off-site agricultural lands -o the northeast. The herewith <br />included Water /nformation -- Exhibit G has been amended to reflect those changes. <br />Exhibit H -Wildlife Information <br />30. Colorado Division of Wildlife has famished the enclbsed wildlife statement for the <br />site and our evaluation thereof. It has been added' to the Exhibit H -Wildlife <br />Information. <br />Exhibit I -Soils Information <br />Soils concerns have been addressed above, as stated, and answered accordingly. <br />The Exhibit / -Soils Information has been amended and is herewith included. <br />Exhibit L -Reclamation Costs <br />31. You are correct in that the worked out east portion ofithe site was inadvertently left <br />out of the reclamation cost evaluation. Since the south and west walls of that area <br />are essentially already back-filled and finish graded we are including only the <br />topsoiling and re-vegetation for those former highwalls'. Cut and fill slope reduction <br />has been included for the west monocline portion of (hat area. Amended pit floor <br />preparation & re-vegetation costs are for the entire site, assuming at this time that no <br />disposal terrace shall be employed (until further bonded). An amended Exhibit L is <br />enclosed. <br />As explained above, reject asphalt from hatching operations is utilized daily (to <br />forego solidification) for access road maintenance, and pis not allowed to accumulate. <br />Stockpiling asphalt mix is not an approved site activity under the proposed permit. <br />Portable crushing equipment (including crushers,' screen plants, generators, <br />S <br />