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<br />areas, before directing the balance of topsoil to west boundary stockpiles for final <br />reclamation use. <br />Exhibit E -Reclamation Plan <br />14. Overburden is not planned for placement into the finished pit floor, except as needed for <br />minor ongoing progressive leveling/shaping of the excavated pit floor for smooth work areas. <br />In the case of premature plt closure, essentially in the Initial Phase operation, overburden <br />stockpiles are to be disposed of in the adjacent (north) headwall slope reduction operations. <br />We believe this is covered in the Reclamation Costs Exhibit L in the Item ®cost for <br />"headwall slope reduction dozing" where any excess stockpiled overburden is dosed down <br />over the adjacent headwall for disposal in the slope reduction. Exhibit E has been modified <br />for this clarification. <br />15. To the best of our knowledge there is no local example of a re-vegetated pit floor comprised <br />primarily of naturally occurring gravelly soils, somewhat mixed in places with clay. Due to <br />an expanding market for an additional commodity (clayey soils) however, the plan for <br />removal of this gravely clay contamination in the pit floor has been generated to allow for <br />extraction of the clean clayey soil. Your suggestion to sample and test an example of the <br />final pit floor material is a valid one and can be done in the completed eastern portions of the <br />site that are now utilized as stockpile areas. Another alternative would be to utilize some of <br />the wasted overburden to that effect. Obviously this also should be sampled and tested to <br />determine the appropriate re-veg methods. With the techniques of adding appropriate <br />fertilizers and mulch we are confident that adequate re-vegetation can be accomplished in the <br />clay soils. In any case, we believe that per Rule 3.1.5 (1) the final grading creates a <br />topography appropriate to livestock grazing range; (3) that the flat grading of the pit floor, <br />the surface water retainment berms, and re-vegetation of bank slopes adequately control <br />erosion and creates no stability hazard for adjacent lands; (7) maximum 2:1 slopes are <br />compatible with surrounding naturally occurring terrain, in particular with the slopes of the <br />regional bench of which this site is only a small part. <br />16. If generated at all, the disposal terrace out-slope shall be topsoiled the same as the back- <br />filled pit wall slopes. <br />17. The slopes selected for reclamation for the current 111 Pernit were not necessarily the <br />maximum allowable for that site. Recent discussions between the operator and the <br />landowner indicate a preference for maximum retrieval of available gravel resources at an <br />