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Banks and Gesso, LLC 1 storage, wetlands and wildlife habitat. The 3 acre area may be used as a building site subject to subsequent land use approvals. The Reclamation Plan assumes the cost for restoration of the mining areas as a reservoir, wetlands and wildlife habitat. ' (a) Mining Methods The Applicant proposes to dry mine the majority of the property, with wet mining ' methods utilized in Areas 2 and 3, which will be outside the compacted clay liner. The initial mining will occur near the northern part of the property, progressing ' south toward the mining limits. The construction of the compacted clay liner will begin as soon as sufficient area is available to begin slope backfill operations, The Applicant will construct the compacted clay liner concurrently with mining ' operations to minimize groundwater impacts on the adjoining properties. Initial mining operations will include stripping, excavation of dewatering trenches and expanding the existing pond at the southern end of the property for process water systems. After the topsoil has been stripped, the raw material will be excavated with front-end loaders. The material may be loaded on a field conveyor in the mining area and conveyed back to the processing area or some ' materials may be excavated with scrapers or off-road haul trucks. The material near the bedrock may be pushed up with a bulldozer, for subsequent handling with the front-end load°rs. Il 1 The mining sequence proposed by the Applicant dictates that the small area near Old Brighton Road will not be enclosed by the clay liner. To eliminate the potential groundwater impacts dry mining this area could have on nearby wells, the Applicant will wet mine this area. The mining site will be stripped of any remaining topsoil and overburden. The upper raw materials will be "benched down" to near the groundwater table with front-end loaders. This technique will allow a large hydraulic excavator or dragline to mine the remaining materials to the shale. The wet materials will be windrowed to drain, prior to subsequent handling by front-end loaders. Some raw material may be loaded directly into off-road haul trucks for transportation to the processing plant, but these quantities are also expected to be minimal. The Applicant wishes to retain the option of using a dragline to wet-mine the area, which would have the ability to mine to shale from the strippec surface in one pass. Wet-mining operations would be utilized in Area 3, subject to Area 3 Mining and Reclamation Procedun~s described later in this section. Mining in Area 3 would require concurrent backfill to near-finished grade with overburden materials from Area 1, reclaiming the final 6" to 12" with "live topsoil". Speer Mining Resource Asphalt Specialties Company, Inc 99035 July 24,2000