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with asphaltic cement in BEST-WAY's asphalt plant to produce bituminous <br /> concrete mix, which is then trucked away to construction projects within <br /> ' the City of Greeley, •Weld County, and in surrounding counties. Limited <br /> ' amounts of gravel have been produced from the BEST-WAY site itself. <br /> Equipment presently in use or stored at the site includes three loaders, <br /> ' one scraper, a gravel plant including crusher, an asphalt plant, numerous <br /> trucks, graders, and asphalt paving machines . The latter three types of <br /> ' equipment are stored at the site but are used on the paving projects. <br /> ' Existing buildings at the site include an office and scale which were <br /> built in 1973, the asphalt plant which was built in 1971 , a large shop <br /> ' building which was built in 1976, a smaller older shop and miscellaneous <br /> small garages, sheds, etc. The operation presently employs 55 people <br /> ' including the office staff located at the site. The majority of the <br /> ' employees spend the bulk of their working day at the paving projects <br /> rather than at the BEST-WAY site. <br /> ' 4. Present Environment: The majority of the site is presently used for the <br /> ' raising of irrigated crops. For the last five to ten growing seasons <br /> the majority of the site was planted in corn. The northwestern portion <br /> ' of the site was allowed to lie fallow in recent years. This area has a <br /> ' ground cover of volunteer wheat and miscellaneous annual forbes. <br /> Although the general area of the site was orginally a plains, short <br /> ' grass eco-system of grama grass, buffalo grass , western wheat , sedges , <br /> and sand sage, none of these species was found on the property during <br /> ' field analysis. Plains Cottonwood trees (Populus sargentii ) border the <br /> ' property on the north along the Greeley No. 3 irrigation ditch. American <br /> ' -5- <br />