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-15- <br />• MR. RENNER: Right. <br />MR. DANIELSON: Steve, as I understood it, there are two potential <br />sources of water that might flow into this West Pit. <br />MR. RENNER: Yes. <br />MR. DANIELSON: One of them is a small local aquafer? <br />MR. RENNER: Yes. <br />MR. DANIEL SON: That the Company believes wouldn't or will essentially be <br />eliminated during mining and won't be a source of inflow. The other is the <br />water flowing out of the alluvial material along Rito Seco? Regardless of the <br />source of that, what is the plan if it turns out that water starts collecting <br />in this pit post-mining? What do we do? <br /> <br />MR. RENNER: The Company is committed in the permit application to ensure <br />that there will be no standing water within the pit area. The way the permit <br />is written is that they will revise the reclamation plan as necessary to <br />ensure that standing water does not occur at the pit. We have left it open <br />ended to allow some flexibility in the plans, whether it be putt-~ng waste <br />material on the floor of the pit or other methods, is not determined. <br />MR. DANIEL SON: So there's no -- there is a binding enforceable <br />commitment on the part of the Company to do something to prevent there from <br />being standing water in that pit. But, you are leaving open the issue of <br />what, until you see what's going on? <br />MR. RENNER: That's right. <br />MR. HOLDER: Are we in any place definitive as to what constitutes <br />standing water? One inch, two inches, four inches; one month, three months? <br /> <br />