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5. Your mining plan includes changing the course of the Uncompahgre River. Provide evidence that altering the course of the river will not cause off-site damage such as steam bank erosion of properties upstream and downstream from the proposed operation. Your response to this citizen concern was that it will be addressed in your 404 permit application. The Mined Land Reclamation Act CRS 34-32-116(7)(h) also requires that you address this matter in your Reclamation Permit application. Provide maps, data and calculations developed by an engineer or hydrologist versed in stream mechanics that demonstrate that off-site damage will not occur as a result of the proposed channel change. 6. When the river is diverted into the Phase I pit area, some storage of water will occur before the normal river flow is resumed. Provide evidence that this will not constitute injury to existing water rights. 7. You have stated that the side boundary to the west of the permitted area will be rip-rapped. Provide specifications for the size, type of material and placement of this rip-rap. These specifications should be sufficient to demonstrate that off-site damage from a 100-year, 24-hour, storm event will be prevented. 8. Your application states that the 300-foot distance between the disturbed area and the south property line will allow sufficient space for the river to establish its natural gradient without impacting the adjoining property owner. Give evidence of this by providing a report including data and calculations developed by a hydrologist or engineer versed in stream mechanics that shows the direction and extent of head cutting that will occur until the river establishes a stable natural gradient. Provide this same type of evidence for the location and extent of scouring that will occur downstream from the excavations. Show these additional disturbances on your Exhibit E Map. 9. Explain why the east side boundary of the permit area is not planned to be rip-rapped. State why this or some other bank protection will not be necessary to protect the adjoining property from erosion damage during high flows. 10. The Exhibit E Map does not clearly show the extent of planned rip-rapping. Please show this information on the map. 11. Describe how the diverted Uncompahgre River will re-enter the normal river channel at the north end of the Phase I excavation during Phase II operations, and show this on the Exhibit E Map.