PERMFILE138840

• Permit No: M1998052
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 6/12/1998
• Doc Name: APPLICATION FORM
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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' Exhibit B
i' Site Description
' The entire site was previously placer mined with dredge boats. In
addition, this site is presently permitted for mining. Alpine Rock company
obtained a 112 permit (referred to as the Swan River Resource Operation) for
' 352 acres in 1993 which includes the 9.9 acres parcel that is the subject of this
application. This application is Rock Island Land Company's (RILC) request for
a permit to do the same thing Alpine Rock was permitted to do in 1993.
' There is no undisturbed land within the permit boundary. The 9.9 acre
permit boundary (i.e., the affected land) shown on the attached maps has been
' carefully drawn to encompass only placer dredge spoils (tailing).
' Vegetation
The dredge spoils are not vegetated. The only vegetation within the
' permit boundary is the occasional evergreen tree (Lodgepole Pine or
Engelmann Spruce) growing directly on the dredge tailing itself. Prior to
dredging, the area was probably a willow carr/subalpine bog.
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Lands outside the spoils consist of normal riparian vegetation in the
bottom land and subalpine vegetation on the hillsides. Species present outside
' the permit boundary in the undisturbed area include Sagebrush, Bitterbrush,
Rabbitbrush, Wheatgrasses, Bluegrasses, Tufted Hairgrass, Sedges, Red-
berried Elder Berry, Lodgepole Pine, Engelmann Spruce, Blue Spruce, and
' Aspen.
No Threatened or Endangered, State or Federal plant species are known
' to occupy the site.
' Soils
As with vegetation, there are no developed soils within the permit
boundary because all of the area inside the permit boundary consists of placer
dredge tailing. Even in the undisturbed area outside this permit boundary,
' these high mountain soils can scarcely be referred to as topsoil. Growth
medium is perhaps a more appropriate term.
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